Please Be Carefull !!

[Khea Karas]

(02-25-2012 10:35 AM)Saga Felix Wrote:  Just to confirm: What Anna, Liriel & Nenya writes is correct - the hidden trait can of course be the same as the shown, as I also wrote above. So, the kitten that Anna posted the pedigree-picture of has a statistic chance of exactly 66.6666% chance to be hiding Siamese Flame. -However, those damn 33.333% chance to NOT hide became true only TOO often in my cattery -So one can never be sure until it's bred out.

-And Liriel's mathematics is also correct, assuming KittyCats are based on straight-forward mendelian inheritance. (And no "extra chance for hidden" etc. is incorporated into the scripts - which I am pretty sure is not the case, but just this disclaimer to be on the safe side )

Saga

ok so I was wrong it seems. Kudos to Anna

To Saga, Maybe an adjustment of your statement like:

The visible trait is ALWAYS more dominant than the hidden trait. This is void when hidden and shown traits are the same in cases of pure traits.

So when two cats breed, they both pass either their hidden or visible trait, and the kitten will have the more dominant of those two traits as the shown trait, and the less dominant as the hidden trait. With the exception of breeding two IDENTICAL traits together; as the chance of passing the hidden & shown trait as the same (a pure trait) becomes possible.

???
Just my thoughts