Hi,

Quote Originally Posted by jluman View Post
No chance, the offspring from the platty daddy, butter daddy, etc... either get the visual gene (lesser, butter, etc...) or look normal and carry the hidden gene.
Yes I know - what I meant was that the gene that produces the visuals has both seperate mutations within it while the gene that the normals get only has one which is non-visual.

So if you called the visual part "A" and the non visual part "a" to differentiate them from normal animals "n" then the lessers, mojaves etc would have one copy of the gene which would be "Aa" and the platty sibs would "na"

One gene with two seperate mutations which are only visualy distinct in certain combinations.

The reason I'm wondering as that would make the dilute "daddy gene" simple recessive compared to "dominant but only in conjunction with the blue eyed complex" which just seems messy.

Granted messy is hardly rare in these things.


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