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Real-life Mutations

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bacillus:
Over here, we get this invasive bush that flowers bright yellow every year. This year I noticed a red bush in the midst of the yellow bushes, looks exactly the same except for the red flowers. An example of spontaneous mutation?

Numsgil:
Might be, but probably it's a case of dominant/recessive genes.  The yellow color might be recessive, with the red color being dominant, and the red gene isn't very common.

bacillus:
Looked it up, it's called Ulex europaeus, and there's no mention of it flowering red, so probably not likely.

Numsgil:
If you're really feeling scientific, you can try breeding the yellow and red and see what results you get.  Sort of a mendel experiment.

Peter:
I once tried that with Four-leaf_clover several years ago, after most where three-leaves but still, you could find rather easily a bunch of four-leaves in the bush, so there where pretty much of them.

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