I'm pretty sure I have this figured out. But to make sure, can someone tell me if I'm getting this right?
If I breed a male bumble bee to say an axanthic female (not a female het for axanthic), I will still only get offspring that are het for axanthic if the bumble bee is not het, correct? Both the male and female at least have to be het for axanthic to produce the visual axanthic, right? The reason I ask this is that when I use the Genetic wizard on "wobp" and put in a male bumble bee, and an axanthic or het axanthic female, I will always come up with some offspring being het axanthic, but no axanthic bees. Since it has the axanthic gene (if both parents are at least het for the axanthic), it may or may not be visual, correct? Hopefully I'm making some sense here. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, does it matter much when breeding bp's if the male or female carries the dom/co-dom/rec gene(s) to give more chances on seeing offspring with the different genes?
Example: Will you have better chances if your female is the bumble bee and your male is a pastel/spider/whatever to create more bumble bees, or the other way around?
Sorry for being long-winded.
Also, sorry for the noob questions.
Thanks.
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