Odds

[mpenny]

I know if you breed a normal female to a co-dom roughly 1/2 the babies should be codom. My quesiton is if a female throws crappy odds one year is it a possibilty that the normal gene in her is in more control than the co-dom gene. If you breed her with a co-dom year after year does she always throw crappy odds?
Marty

[Wh00h0069]

I know if you breed a normal female to a co-dom roughly 1/2 the babies should be codom. My quesiton is if a female throws crappy odds one year is it a possibilty that the normal gene in her is in more control than the co-dom gene. If you breed her with a co-dom year after year does she always throw crappy odds?
Marty

Hi Marty, no, that is not possible. Each egg has a 1/2 chance of being a codom or a normal. So she could just as easily throw all codoms one year and all normals the next. You just never know.

Good luck.

[rabernet]

I know if you breed a normal female to a co-dom roughly 1/2 the babies should be codom. My quesiton is if a female throws crappy odds one year is it a possibilty that the normal gene in her is in more control than the co-dom gene. If you breed her with a co-dom year after year does she always throw crappy odds?
Marty

The male will either contribute a co-dom gene or he won't. It's all up to the boy, not the female. A normal gene won't overpower a co-dom gene, if the co-dom sperm inseminated the egg.

[wilomn]

A conversation between a Drill Sperm and his soon to be free squidlets.

All right guys, the spurs are a twitchin and we got to be ready to go. You've worked hard, trained diligently, and built up muscle where you never thought you could. It's time to put that training to use.

You normals, over to the left. You co-doms, on the right. ANYONE caught leaving the tube early will be wasted. Remember that. I hate to see you guys and gals dribbling down someones scutes. That's just waste and we ALL know how I feel about that.

Now, you co-doms have been talking some big stuff lately here. I sure hope you can back it up. Them normals, they may not be as pretty as you, but they have heart, they have drive. They can't depend on good looks to get them through so they work hard. Just look at the tails on some of those monsters, my god, I wish I was going with you guys.

They're beginning tail-wrap, everyone to the vas defrons gate, all sperm to the gate, launch is imminent. Come one you two, I don't care whose jelly is softer, move your protoplasmic butts NOW.

Co-doms, don't push the normals like that, they have every bit as much right to try for an egg as you do. Normals, don't take any crap now, this is the Big Show, this is it. You either pop that egg or you, well....die.

Ok kids, we have insertion, our boy is going to town. Here comes the seminal fluid, everyone in the chute and best of luck. You guys were the best recruits I've ever trained and I expect each and every one of you to hit your target and MAKE ME PROUD.

It's anybody's game out there, you all have to potential to generate new life, now GO GO GO!!!!
YEEEE HAAAAAA

[kc261]

For all practical purposes, the answer is no, but technically there are some very slight possibilities.

From what I remember of a college biology class, there is a chance that something in the co-dom's reproductive system isn't working properly, causing all or most of the sperm (in this case) to be normal sperm. Or maybe the co-dom sperm are made, but not made right, so they have less chance of fertilizing the eggs. It could also happen in reverse, so that only the codom gene gets passed on. I don't remember details, and it is possible I'm remembering it entirely wrong, but from what I remember, there is some way due to some sort of damaged chromosome or other reproductive malfunction, that a heterozygous animal can pass on only one of its 2 different genes.

I also believe the chances of this are about as big as having a new morph mutate spontaneously during one of your breedings. So while it is technically possible, but in reality we are unlikely to ever see it.

To answer your original question, as far as I know, there is NO chance that the female's normal genes overpower the male's codom genes. If the female had a different gene, it could possibly be dominant, but then it wouldn't be normal anymore. As far as I know, none of the known BP genes work this way, so it would have to be a new mutation, but it is theoretically possible.

Bottom line is that you are exceedingly unlikely to see this. If you are working with dinkers, it might increase the chances slightly, but for all practical purposes, the answer is no.

Just try again next year.

[mpenny]

This is my first year breeding,so I don't have any records to fall back on YET. This was one of my crazy thoughts taking over. As some of you know BPs will do that to you (have crazy and un-rational thoughts). Kinda like Wilomn has.
Marty

[rabernet]

This is my first year breeding,so I don't have any records to fall back on YET. This was one of my crazy thoughts taking over. As some of you know BPs will do that to you (have crazy and un-rational thoughts). Kinda like Wilomn has.
Marty

I can assure you that Wes' thoughts are completely rational!

[wilomn]

This is my first year breeding,so I don't have any records to fall back on YET. This was one of my crazy thoughts taking over. As some of you know BPs will do that to you (have crazy and un-rational thoughts). Kinda like Wilomn has.
Marty

I can assure you that Wes' thoughts are completely rational!

I can assure you, most definitely, that both sides of this argument, well, the two asserted here anyway, have been thoroughly examined.

The jury, to my knowledge, is still out.

Now, tell me this:

Why, with the earth itself being such a good insulator, do we only build UP?

Especially with the technology we have now. Why aren't we exploring underground, not subterranean, but as if the living quarters of a home were all or mostly beneath the surface with a yard above or even have a single story above ground for storage like a garage?

How come we only think of UP?

[dr del]

Hobbit houses,

http://media.canada.com/b17a5268-e80...oundhouse1.jpg

http://www.longpassages.org/images/T...d%20houses.jpg

http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploa...ound-house.jpg

http://www.daycreek.com/dc/images/dchouse1.jpg


dr del

[RebelYell83]

i like the third one,,wonder if i can find a suitable hill in florida.....