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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I'm so stressed right now. I start work tomorrow and I'm going to have more responsibilities than I'm used to at my new job. I'm so worried I'm gonna mess something up early and be fucked over all summer, or that I won't be able to cope with the increase in responsibility and will just collapse or fail to get my work done. And since it's my first time in any sort of leadership role I'm also just scared that I won't be able to actually do it effectively. I don't fucking know how to lead at all. I'm such a mess even at the best of times. How am I gonna be able to deal with all the extra meetings and directing people when I can't even make friends. I can barely even talk to the friends I do have without inevitably at some point accidentally insulting them.And I still haven't finished my last essay and housecleaning so I can't even really spend today resting at all. I'm so fucking tired. I want to just slow down. I didn't even really sleep last night, just napped a lot since I was too stressed for a real sleep. I have no energy left. But I still have to keep pushing since I have so many commitments still. Literally every day until next Saturday I'll have some necessary thing to do or another and its been like this all month and I'm just so done. There's been so many messages from friends or family over the past month that I've accidentally ghosted since I just don't have the energy to reply to them and I feel awful each time but I also can barely even focus on the damn essay and other stuff that I really need to have done already. The one saving grace is that my seasonal depression is mostly done now so I'm not crying every single day anymore like I was around exam time. Instead I'm just, so, so tired and stressed.
Honestly tomorrow is even scaring me a little. I was expecting to start work with at least some rest between exams and it but since I haven't gotten any I have no clue how I'm going to be and coupled with all the stress I'm just a bit terrified. I'm glad I have the leadership role since i think it'll be good for me to work on those skills and everything but I also just, don't feel ready, not even a little bit.
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I'm so sorry, that is a horrible feeling