Before you say this should go into real biology, this is a query to more elaborate manual .sexrepro type systems...
What if we had a bot, with lets say 60 genes, but for every dominant gene we have 2 recessive, and activate them on birth randomly...
Just a forced variation idea...Could be useful in a long-term sim...
Also just a slightly offtopic point, Is it possible for DNA/VIRUSES to change the colour of a bot...I ask this because Im expanding in the virus area, and want to make a virus which changes enemies to my bot...