I'm with you on this. I think that realizing that pastels and spiders are hets makes it much easier to predict offspring from complex crosses.Originally Posted by mainbutter
Also, I'm not sure what the latest official notation is but I like the upper and lower case letters to show that there are two different "normal" genes involved in this cross; normal for pastel and normal for spider. I would write bumblebee X bumblebee as PpSs X PpSs with the P being the pastel mutant version and p the normal for pastel version and likewise S the spider mutant and s the normal for spider.
I don't think this forum supports html tables but just in case this is how I would write the cross:
<html><table border=2><tr><td></td><td>PS</td><td>Ps</td><td>pS</td><td>ps</td>
</tr><tr><td>PS</td><td>PPSS</td><td>PPSs</td><td>PpSS</td><td>PpSs</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ps</td><td>PPSs</td><td>PPss</td><td>PpSs</td><td>Ppss</td></tr><tr><td>
pS</td><td>PpSS</td><td>PpSs</td><td>ppSS</td><td>ppSs</td></tr><tr><td>ps</td>
<td>PpSs</td><td>Ppss</td><td>ppSs</td><td>ppss</td></tr></table></html>
But I'm not at all sure any of the homozygous spider (SS) combos hatch.
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