Quote Originally Posted by asplundii;924641I did not say you HAD to have it I just said it would make the process easier if you were looking to insert it at a specific loci. Like if you wanted just the alien heads to fluoresce...

I am sorry, I hate to sound arrogant but I hold a PhD in molecular genetics. :) I realize full well how messy genetic engineering [I
can[/I] be (and for the most part is.) However, I also realize that, with the advent of modern and next-gen sequencing and refined techniques, it need not be as messy. Synthetic biology is not that that far away and not nearly as messy.
Arrogance is allowed--I did think you were saying it was necessary to map out the genome first. I do have doubts that cutting-edge tech will be applied to develop these ball pythons, as they implied they were already working on it.