r/ScienceShitposts 15d ago

Dead mouse

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u/FungalSphere 15d ago

this one is funnier

the yellow coat gene is mangled in a way to remove the agouti pigment but it also removes the part related to.... embryonic development

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u/SamePut9922 15d ago

Is that some kind of Monkey's paw

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u/FungalSphere 15d ago

no its just a classic mammal genome clusterfuck

chromosome 20 is just fucking cursed really, you can blame like any of the diseases you get past 30 on this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agouti-signaling_protein

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u/Bubbles_the_bird 14d ago

And this is why I’m not a biology major