personally to me strain names are more like your last name. just because your mom and pop had 5 kids and thier last name is sour diesel, your last name is sour diesel, but there can be only one original sour diesel. everything else you get is part of the blood line of sour d. but now you go and mate with someone else your kids will be less like your parents but still has resemblance. If you come form a family of good genes, most likely you will have good genes, but dont mean that you cant have retards as kids. just that chances are you will have more kids that look good and smart if you were smart too, but then if you have 2 ugly mofos that have kids most likely you will have an ugly baby, but once in a while even thought your ugly you might have a good looking kid