Proving Dominant Traits

[WingedWolfPsion]

Yea but my point is that the cinny and bp are two diff morprhs yet they can make a super that produces no normals. Idk how much they differ then if thats obviously the case.

It's because they are two different mutations of the same gene (basically--yes, I know it's more complicated than that, but this will help make it understandable).

If you breed a cinnamon to a normal, it can pass on either the cinnamon gene, or the normal gene, right? The baby will then get a normal gene from its mother as well--she can only pass on a normal gene, because she has 2 of them. The baby gets one set of genes from mom, and one from dad--now it has a pair.

If you breed a cinny to a black pastel, and the cinny passes on its morph gene, and so does the black pastel, then the baby has one cinny morph gene, and one black pastel morph gene...but those two genes are in the same spot, so even though they are different mutations, the baby does not have a normal copy of that gene--just two different mutant copies, get it?

So when you breed it, it can only pass on one mutant copy, or the other mutant copy, because it doesn't have a normal copy.
As a result, each baby has a 50% chance to be cinnamon, and a 50% chance to be black pastel. It can't be both, because it only inherits one copy of that gene from the bp/cinny super.

Now, if you have a bumblebee, it has one copy of a pastel gene, and one normal gene in one spot, and then one copy of a spider gene, and normal gene in a DIFFERENT spot. So, it can pass on a pastel gene or normal gene in one spot, and a spider gene or normal gene in the other spot. Because they aren't mutations of the same gene, it can pass both the pastel and spider gene to its offspring, so it can have bumblebee offspring.