eloquentdrivil:

Fellow storytellers, lend me your ear!

Listen, you ever have the problem where you’ve got a biological conundrum where someone’s got a mutation, or superpowers, or the dog is an alien, but you’re wondering how you can make it plausible that vets, doctors, scientists just MISSED this little bit of information during lab tests?

I present to you:

Dark DNA <–[ psst, link to youtube video about it. Or, like, just google it ]

It’s like dark matter, but in your DNA!

It goes like this:

Genetic sequences do things like tell your body how/when to produce insulin (or the proteins responsible for superpowers).

But the genome of the mice being studied were MISSING the sequences that do that, despite the fact that they were OBVIOUSLY producing insulin since the mice weren’t dead, even if the genome didn’t actually explain HOW they were doing that.

Scientists DID eventually deduce where they’re pretty sure the missing
sequences are, but literally only knew to go looking because they knew
there was something to look for in the first place.

So. When pseudo-science fails to explain how
superpowers/mutations/supernatural markers could go undetected, fall
back on the Real Science of:

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