Thread:Zillafire101/@comment-5496489-20151027142437/@comment-25890179-20151210210623

Knight and Gorzill: Bodies don't usually destroy genes. Recessive ones are naturally shut off via chemical instructions from cell nuclei. That beings said, some organisms do destroy inferior genes.

Also, recessive genes are rather easily turned back on, resulting in sporadic mutations, or slight deformities or differences. Sometimes there is no change at all.

If you want your creature to destroy its ineffective genes, you have to take into a account the non-targeting parameters of white blood cells or anything else that destroys other cells/viruses. They don't attack their own cells. That's how the Ebola virus tricks the body into not attacking it.

But you could have those particular cells/genes emit a "kill me" signal. That's what cells infected by a virus do, if the virus has no countermeasure to stop them from doing so.

Just something interesting I thought I'd tell you since I study that kind of stuff. But like Gorzill said, Artistic License: Biology.