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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 16, 2014 7:30:28 GMT -5
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Post by subzero350 on Dec 16, 2014 14:29:27 GMT -5
Is it just pure coincidence there are 200 white deer living on a property that used to house radioactive material?
I am curious to know if any biological studies have been done on these white deer to determine if their genome was influenced by radioactive materials.
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Post by beermanbrian on Dec 16, 2014 14:53:28 GMT -5
Is it just pure coincidence there are 200 white deer living on a property that used to house radioactive material? I am curious to know if any biological studies have been done on these white deer to determine if their genome was influenced by radioactive materials. And if these deer should be free to breed with deer in the "outside" population.
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Post by ridgerunner on Dec 16, 2014 17:01:57 GMT -5
kill em all...and eat em
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Post by throbak on Dec 16, 2014 18:30:08 GMT -5
Hmmm IHave seen 2 white deer at Big Oaks. And they Have Du
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Post by 36fan on Dec 17, 2014 12:58:36 GMT -5
I read up a little about this when I first saw the story. It has nothing to do with the radioactive material. Apparently when the fence went up, there were a few deer with the white recessive trait. Due presence of hte recessive gene in the greatly reduced gene pool, the recessive trait started appearing with much more frequently than "normal". The gov't then let a few hunts occur, with the restriction only brown deer were to be shot ... further increasing the relative frequency of the recessive trait in the population of deer inside the fence.
If the fence were to be taken down, the white trait would quickly become an anomaly again in the next few generations.
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