snake post
I'd like to talk about one of my favorite ball python morphs, the banana gene. It is an incomplete dominant trait first produced by NERD in 2003. Incomplete dominant means an animal only needs one copy of the gene for it to express itself, however a "super" (homozygous) form exists when both parents pass the gene on to their offspring.
An adult and baby banana ball python. As you can see, they are bright yellow with black spots as adults, looking very much like a banana. They have white bellies. This is a different gene from albinism, and they have normal eyes. Here's a wild type for comparison:
One thing that is very unique to the banana gene is it is sex linked (the only ball python morph that does this, not sure about other animals). Female bananas will produce equal split of male and female, banana and wild type. However in males, it is linked to how the sire inherited the gene. If he inherited it from his father's side, he is a "male maker" and almost all of the bananas he produces will be male. The sex split and morph split are the same (50/50), but almost all the males will have the gene and almost all the females will be wild type. Same if he inherited the gene from his mother, just reversed (this is a "female maker"). A common myth/misunderstanding is that this holds true all the time, it does not. A male maker can still produce female banana ball pythons, and male wild types. Same for female makers, in the other direction. Roughly 3% of snakes produced from male bananas will be one of these instead of the "expected" outcome.
These are both super bananas if you wanted to see what they look like ^^
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Oh, yeah, it's spring time.
All the transes are talking about sex again.
Keep it going. This is how we won last year.
Iβm a virgin. What the fuck am I supposed to talk about?
have any nice garlic bread recently?
What a coincidence, I was actually planning on eating some today. So in a couple of hours my answer will be "yes".
Gonna make it with virgin olive oil?
Iβm not that fancy.
Itβs a pre-made baguette. I always eat them when Iβm too lazy or tired to cook something.
I used to eat entire baguettes of garlic bread in one sitting when I was on my dirtbag arc. Would feel like crap every time after. But I kept doing it.
Carry on, soldier
jumping in to this convo cuz we're behind the news mega to say:
im a terrible ace because i don't much care for garlic bread. all the things that together make gbread, yummy-yum!
French baguette? eff yes!
garlic? hit me baby!
EVOO? pour it in my mouth, rub it in my eyes!
put em together to make gbread? errr no thanks.
ill eat all the s'ghetti tho
Oh wait, thatβs an ace meme?
I was wondering where that question came from.
lol yeah i remember it from the ace subs i hung out back in my reddit days. went sumpin like:
which helped me understand that was what i was, cuz ive always been bout the netfix and not the chill. id still take garlic bread over sex even tho i don't much care for the goo bread (which is probably the point of the meme rather than specific love of garlic n grease now that I'm thinking on it)
wait this is a garlic bread thread somehow, i need to spoiler this
a ridiculously hot trans girl asked me today "do you know why i got into voice training?" and i was like "n-no" and then she said "because i wanted to be able to do this" and whispered into my ear how all good girls get down on their knees, in the smokiest, hottest bedroom voice you can imagine