So I was talking to a buddy who I am teaching about breeding and genetics and all that fun stuff and we were going over the slightly more complex genes and we came to the Platty daddy. While going over them I was explaining the history of the Platty daddy and how it came into the country and all of that. I then went on to explain the process to produce another one, which for anyone not aware of how this is done I will explain. First you need a Platty daddy and you breed it to a normal. You will produce lesser's and normals. The normals are Het. Platty. You then grow them babies up and breed the lesser to the Het Platty and you will produce Platty daddy. So anyways I then explained how lesser to lesser makes BEL and all that. Well he then asked what would happen if you took that lesser that was produced by the Platty daddy and bred it to a normal and then bred him to a normal female he produced...... So I started thinking and really what should happen is just get lessers and normals right. But then I started to think more and I started asking questions to myself. Mainly why is it that only lesser to het daddy makes Platty daddy when if it is in fact a recesive gene then it should be passed on to both the lessers and the normals and not just the normals as it is passed. So the real question here is what kind of gene is the Het. Daddy? Is it recessive like most have thought or is it a dominant gene that is in the same genetic location as the lesser so it can only be passed on if the offspring is "normal"?

So my end thinking on this is that the Het daddy gene and lesser is really similar to the het superstripe gene and yellowbelly being that when a superstripe is bred to a normal you will get either het superstripes or yellowbellies so the same would apply with the Platty genes. When Platty daddy is bred you get lessers and Het Daddy no true normals.


I would like to know what others think about this.