(03-20-2014 06:36 AM)Hathor Xaris Wrote: this is another fact that probably gets misconstrued due to terminology alone.
like hasn't anyone ever bred a couple black russians together and all they have in their peds r black russians, you put em together and out comes a bengal or a siames or a tabby, right not cause its a hidden dominant, its cause its just something that was in the ped somewhere far far away that the ole shuffling of cards trick that genetics does decided to play that card.
If you get a different fur from those pair of russian blacks, it is because that fur was RECESSIVE to russian black fur - end of story. There is no such thing as a "hidden dominant" - if it is hidden it is because it is recessive to the dominant fur, which is showing. The gene "deck" has 2 cards per cat per trait.
There is no shuffling of only 2 cards, only the random chance you will get one card or the other card PASSED to the new offspring.
The best terms to use to correctly understand breeding are passing, showing, and hidden. Dominate always shows, Recessive is always hidden.
The term "Pulling" should be banned from usage, since it leads to confusion and misconceptions among new breeders - and the fact that nothing is ever "pulled" in the first place - traits simply Pass all on their own - no pulling allowed.
One of only two genes are passed randomly to the kitten from each parent, and the trait that shows is always the dominant trait. That's really all there is to it.
Mendel's Laws are never broken in the KittyCats world - breeding is not a fuzzy art.
(ooh a play on words)
