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How did the spots on the cat come from?
There is no doubt that tabby cats are very popular. There used to be a tabby cat named Venus that attracted people's attention on the Internet. Half of its face is black and the other half is orange. It looks like a tabby cat. The eyes on the black face are green, but the eyes on the orange face are blue. No one knows how it works, but many people think it is a Camara. A camera cat is a fusion of two embryos in the womb. Such cats are actually very common. In fact, most Camara are male tabby cats, and there are far fewer females.

For a long time, scientists have been studying how cats get coat color, such as those that produce black and white spots. Now they have finally found a secret gene that can determine cheetah spots, domestic cats and cats stripes. This gene is called Taqpep, and it is very important to translate protein with the other two genes, and will participate in a series of cell-level reactions, and finally determine the unique pattern on your cat.

However, before this, scientists have gone through many detours. They once assumed that color is the result of the continuous expansion of pigment cells, but in fact, these are completely random effects. Scientists from the University of Bath and the University of Edinburgh have been observing growing mice. They paid special attention to mouse embryos with black and white spots to see if there was a rule that determined the final pigmentation of mice. In this paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers admit that there is no pattern at all.