MM N. incei "gold" freshly matured.

@cold blood @Trenor I'll try and explain a better, I know you both will understand. Wild type is the term used to describe a normal looking individual of a species, plant or animal. Now, just because say an albino pops up naturally out in the wild that doesn't mean the albino specimen is wild type, it is not at all. WT has no bearing on where the species is found, merely what it looks like. So for example, all of our Ts are Wild Type, even though they are born in captivity. The exception being the gold form of N. incei, it's a simple recessive trait. The only one we know about in tarantulas, so Gold forms are pretty special, and of course are not wild type.

For example, a person who is an albino is not a wild type human.

Don't worry @Trenor , green is the rarest eye color in the world, then blue.

@viper69

Reeeaaaalllyy.....very interesting....


I do in fact have green eyes

@cold blood Really! Yep on green, estimated about 2% of entire world has green eyes. I did see someone that had bright yellow hued eyes, and they stood out more because she had deep brown skin. I've never seen anyone w/her color eyes before.

@viper69 I understood that wild type had nothing to do with being captivate bred. Most populations of animals/plants have their biggest populations outside of captivity so I went with that in the example. Wild type is the traits that are dominant for a given species (so they show up more). It's not just for looks, it seems, as the one biology section on the college website used a wild type banana to show the seed size difference when compared to cultivated bananas.

My point was that as a species evolves (over a long period of time) it's dominate traits could change so that most of that species has the new trait. Then whoever is studying them at the time would consider that the wild type. It would not affect us as we are not so long lived as to see it happen in one life time.

Green eyes are the rarest. To know what a wild type human looks like we'd need to run all the dominant trait variants for our species and see which combination is the most common/dominant. Then everything that wasn't that combination would not be a wild type. As humans have a lot of variants it seem to me that finding out what a wild type human was would be difficult.

@Trenor I was only phenotype as we were talking about what we see. The information you provided is indeed accurate one. I didn't want to involve more traits, try to keep it simple/limited. WT could be any trait of course, after all, just look at Mendel's Pea Plant experiments.