@t_h_wyman again :
- “Paradoxing” is an illegitimate term in the hobby used to describe animals that are Mosaics or Chimeras
- A Mosaic is two (or more) genotypes present but they derive from the same source, i.e., all cells are derived from a single embryo
- A Chimera is two (very rarely more) genotypes present derived from different sources, e.g., twin fusion (there are less common forms as well)
- Chimerism and Mosaicism both happen in humans.
So say you pair a Banana Pinstripe X Spotnose.
Mosaic would be where you produce a Banana Pinstripe offspring, but the code messes up along the way and the animal displays, in patches, Banana and Pinstripe phenotypes, rather than the blended BananaPinstripe phenotype.
The Zygote is the fertilised egg. At the time of division it has information from both parents to play with.