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Name: Nathan
Status: student
Grade: 4-5
Location: PA
Country: N/A
Date: 1/3/2005
Question:
What kind of oils do transparent fish have inside them that make them transparent?

Replies:
Transparent fish merely have a loss of pigment. This is a genetic factor. Scientists recently found a way to pick and choose certain alleles so that the fish they are studying can be transparent into adulthood.

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