So i'm writing up a lab report and i'm just a little confused on why scarlet, rosy, cinnabar and vermillion mutants contain the same kinds and amounts of pigments found in wild-type according to paper chromatography. Since they're mutants shouldn't it be different? I don't understand how i'm going to explain that they are mutants when it appears that they have the same phenotype as wild-type. Thank you so much for your help!
Man pigments determine the colour of the eye. If the composition of pigments is same in all the flies,how can the colour in which their eyes look differ?isn't this a contradiction?i suspect the accuracy of The chromatography test because even a very very slight change in the amount of pigment can significantly change the colour. The phenotype is always different in mutants due to different genotype. in genotype is taken for granted if a change in phenotype is present. Wait just got over into a nice point. Sometimes even if the pigment composition being same different colours m8 be produced due to different allotropes or iro of the same pigment might have different colours!though allotropes(not isomers) have same composition but differ in,their post translational changes r different.since post translational changes r indirectly influenced by genes.this completely explains this case.
