To understand mutagens, the Silken bulb was found to be ideal because its genome is a combination of trios of red(R),orange(O),yellow(Y),green(G),blue(B) and indigo(I) KRRROOOYYYGGGBBBIIIK ('K' stands for black and is used only as a place marker for the beginning and end of the true genome). Therefore, disruptions to the trios are easily seen using Milky Solvent.
Milky Solvent is the cheapest solvent to use because it uses Bleeding Hand mushrooms which are the most commonly found of all the solvent mushrooms. Milky Solvent produces three-color sequences when used in a greenhouse on bulbs. Because the Silken genome is formed of color trios you can see when a trio is broken when retrieving color sequences with Milky Solvents. Example: when using Upper Egypt #3 mutagen
Example: After using Karnak #23 mutagen on two Silken parents we get the children bulbs, A bulb Ariella #51 and the B bulb Ariella #52
When a mutagen is used on a pair of crossbreeding bulbs, the resulting pair of bulbs has one gene chosen from somewhere in the A bulb's 'front half' of the left cross and puts it in the 'back half' of the B bulb and then reverses the gene withdrawal and replacement. This is called an EarlySwap. See example above. Notice that an 'R' from Ariella #52 is swapped and inserted into the middle 'G' from Ariella #51. This is a LatterSwap, the first bulb in the resulting crossbreeding pair takes a gene from the fore part of the second bulb's genome while the second bulb takes a gene from the latter part of the first bulb's genome. However, for EarlySwap some mutagens reverse this swapping procedure as in Karnak #1 Calico, Fuzzy mutagen:
Thus the use of the swapping terminology EarlySwap, LatterSwap
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