Convict fry color ????

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Lots of misinformation here.

For two "normal" (I'll refer to them as wild type, or WT) convicts to throw pink offspring they must BOTH carry heterozygous alleles for the recessive color trait (which would be represented as Aa). The offspring would then have a 75% wild type phenotype (AA and Aa) with a 25% homozygous recessive phenotype (aa) showing up as pink convicts, so a 3 to 1 ratio.

The best guess would be that your parental generation of convicts had one pink and one WT parent, which would lead to all offspring being heterozygous (Aa). (I'm assuming your pair are siblings.)

Crossing pink to WT and whatnot does not lead to marbles (unless they already carry a gene for marbles from an ancestor), it is a different sort of genetics other than basic recessive/dominant, more along the lines of co-dominance or incomplete dominance.

And Convit breeder, you most definitely inherit half of your genes from your mother and half from your father. There is no difference in the "amount" or "dominance" between genes of either sex.
 
Modest_Man;2425930; said:
Lots of misinformation here.

For two "normal" (I'll refer to them as wild type, or WT) convicts to throw pink offspring they must BOTH carry heterozygous alleles for the recessive color trait (which would be represented as Aa). The offspring would then have a 75% wild type phenotype (AA and Aa) with a 25% homozygous recessive phenotype (aa) showing up as pink convicts, so a 3 to 1 ratio.

The best guess would be that your parental generation of convicts had one pink and one WT parent, which would lead to all offspring being heterozygous (Aa). (I'm assuming your pair are siblings.)

Crossing pink to WT and whatnot does not lead to marbles (unless they already carry a gene for marbles from an ancestor), it is a different sort of genetics other than basic recessive/dominant, more along the lines of co-dominance or incomplete dominance.

And Convit breeder, you most definitely inherit half of your genes from your mother and half from your father. There is no difference in the "amount" or "dominance" between genes of either sex.

:clap

Well done. I'm so glad people like you are still around in MFK!
 
convict_breeder;2426430; said:
how far off was i??

If you can't tell by reading my post (if you even did) then lets just say quite a bit? :D

I really don't even understand sentences like "so now its taking a tow on his frys now".
 
Modest_Man;2425930; said:
Lots of misinformation here.

For two "normal" (I'll refer to them as wild type, or WT) convicts to throw pink offspring they must BOTH carry heterozygous alleles for the recessive color trait (which would be represented as Aa). The offspring would then have a 75% wild type phenotype (AA and Aa) with a 25% homozygous recessive phenotype (aa) showing up as pink convicts, so a 3 to 1 ratio.

The best guess would be that your parental generation of convicts had one pink and one WT parent, which would lead to all offspring being heterozygous (Aa). (I'm assuming your pair are siblings.)

Crossing pink to WT and whatnot does not lead to marbles (unless they already carry a gene for marbles from an ancestor), it is a different sort of genetics other than basic recessive/dominant, more along the lines of co-dominance or incomplete dominance.

And Convit breeder, you most definitely inherit half of your genes from your mother and half from your father. There is no difference in the "amount" or "dominance" between genes of either sex.

pffft i got most of my dads genes and a lil of my moms genes but my dad was adopted so we dont now our real family on my dads side.
 
high school biology anyone? it's called science for a reason...
 
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