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You did the most on him! He looks amazing!

Hes handsome! Odd question but i see you put double copies of sooty plus on each strand . What exactly does this do? Does it cause both strands of sooty plus to be homozygous? So every foal is garunteed to have one strand from each side?

Perfect!

Thank you horseangel, i thought when a horse has per say E/E that stands for homozygous. But i looked at the tattoo area and noticed 2 copys of the same gene were put on the same strand and same as the other strand so doubling up the gene EE/EE but it technically doesn't do that? Maybe it was just a glitch or something was put on 4 times for a gene. I was curious as i havent seen it before and didnt know if it did anything or something glitched.

@Brandybrookes, Oh that! The horse above is a chimera, so it has 2 different DNA sets. Both of which can be GM'd separately in the Lab. Yes, it says flaxen was added 4 times but only 2 copies were put on the primary gene set and the other 2 on the second gene set! It is not possible to put more than 2 of any gene on the same DNA strand. In the RGS if you buy 1 copy of a gene, say S+, and the horse you want it on is a Chimera, then S+ will be put on Both the primary and secondary sets of the horse, 1 copy each without you having to buy it a second time as well.


And yes if the horse is E/E on one strand then it is Homozygous for the Black gene (bay is AA). If it says it as EE/EE then the gene was added to make Both DNA strands Hom (if it is Chimeric). E/e means the horse is only Het for black, a/A a horse is only Het for bay then. Hom Silver is Z/Z, Het is /Z and Dun D/D and so on!