It's a bit funky when you're combining a recessive and a dominant trait.Originally Posted by Griggs2121
1. We capitalize the trait which is dominant in appearance.
So, if we are discussing the construction of pastel albinos, we would designate our animals like this:
Normal: AApp (Dominant over albino, recessive to pastel)
Albino: aapp (recessive albino, recessive pastel)
Pastel: AAPa (Dominant over albino, one copy of the dominant pastel gene)
Super pastel: AAPP (Dominant over albino, two copies of the dominant pastel gene)
For the square, you would still draw a 2x2 grid, but the components would each contain one albino and one pastel gene.
Example: Albino x pastel breeding (forgive my crude grid diagram)
____ap _|__ap__
Ap| Aapp| Aapp_
AP| AaPp| AaPp_
Results:
Aapp = het albino
AaPp = pastel het albino
Hope that helps you visualize it better!