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RE: Pedigree Research
Mental model time.
Take slips of paper and envelopes.
Write the name of a trait, say a fur, (say "Russian Black") on the envelope.
Put a slip of paper inside the envelope with that same (here, "Russian Black") name.
Put another inside saying "or better" (meaning more recessive) (here, "Russian Black or better").
Take the fur envelopes for the parents.
Pull out one slip of paper from each.
Compare them using Saga's charts. Say we get "Russian Black" and "Russian White or better" when we do that.
Russian Black is "dominant" so write that on the envelope. Make copies of both slips, but the originals back in the parents and the copies in the offspring.
-- This model is how it works inside the game.
You can do it "in reverse" with a bit of thinking. And doing it in reverse is how Saga's charts are made.
You may hear the words, so here they are.
The envelope is the "phenotype". This is from the same base as phenomena .. think of it as "the envelope is what you see".
Inside the envelope are two slips of paper. Those slips are "alleles". The two of them together are the "genotype". Same base as genesis .. that which starts it off.
Saga's charts are the roadmap which takes you from the genotype (slips of paper inside) to the phenotype (what you see written on the envelope).
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