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Yay! Good job, present sent!
Cool, here's mine.

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sorry...the answer just came to me really fast.

Here's mine. It's a trivia question and you guys might have to do some research. Please do not ask any breeders the answer to this question but you can do an internet search.

Question:
The mother is a marble bengal and she is homozygous for the marble pattern. The father is a spotted bengal and he is homozygous for the spotted pattern. If these two mate, what patterns will the kittens have?
 
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Crud - you beat me to it - I am a genetics freak - this was right up my alley


Mackerel is dominant to Classic (marbled) and Spotted is a mutation of the Mc tabby. Good breeders pick the best defined spots. Homozygous means they carry two of the same gene. Just had to get that off my chest -


Good job! Great question!



PS - the cats in your siggy are gorgeous!
 

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OK then, say your trying to decide the eye color of offspring by using the Punnet Square. What is used for brown eyes and what is used for blue?
 
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Originally Posted by luvmycat1

OK then, say your trying to decide the eye color of offspring by using the Punnet Square. What is used for brown eyes and what is used for blue?
Brown eyes are dominant and is signified using (B-) and blue eyes are recessive signified by (bb)

The dash in the brown eyed is for the second unknown gene - it can be (Bb) or (BB)

Two Blue-eyed parents can only have a blue eyed child, but two Brown-eyed parents can have both.

Cats get way more complicated than that, especially when considering masking genes, the orange gene, agouti gene and tabby patterns - lol
 

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Originally Posted by Marianjela

Brown eyes are dominant and is signified using (B-) and blue eyes are recessive signified by (bb)

The dash in the brown eyed is for the second unknown gene - it can be (Bb) or (BB)

Two Blue-eyed parents can only have a blue eyed child, but two Brown-eyed parents can have both.

Cats get way more complicated than that, especially when considering masking genes, the orange gene, agouti gene and tabby patterns - lol
That one was for you.
I love genetic stuff too.
 

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Originally Posted by Marianjela

Brown eyes are dominant and is signified using (B-) and blue eyes are recessive signified by (bb)

The dash in the brown eyed is for the second unknown gene - it can be (Bb) or (BB)

Two Blue-eyed parents can only have a blue eyed child, but two Brown-eyed parents can have both.

Cats get way more complicated than that, especially when considering masking genes, the orange gene, agouti gene and tabby patterns - lol
Wow that was quick! you didn't even give me time to think about it...lol
 

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Originally Posted by Marianjela

Brown eyes are dominant and is signified using (B-) and blue eyes are recessive signified by (bb)

The dash in the brown eyed is for the second unknown gene - it can be (Bb) or (BB)

Two Blue-eyed parents can only have a blue eyed child, but two Brown-eyed parents can have both.

Cats get way more complicated than that, especially when considering masking genes, the orange gene, agouti gene and tabby patterns - lol
Do you know the answer to this...(just asking because i'd like to know)..A seal mink snow bengal has one burmese gene and one siamese gene. Some minks have blue eyes and some have other color eyes. If a blue eyed seal mink is bred to a seal lynx point (which always has blue eyes), you would get seal minks and seal lynx point kittens. All of the seal lynx points would have blue eyes, but would all of the seal minks also have blue eyes?
 
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Originally Posted by bengalbabe

Wow that was quick! you didn't even give me time to think about it...lol
Woo Hoo! We have a bunch of genetic-egg-heads on board right now.


I dont suppose I should ask another one....

Heck - this one's probably easy, but here goes.

If a long-haired tortie mom has short-haired red daughters, what was the father?
 

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Originally Posted by Marianjela

Woo Hoo! We have a bunch of genetic-egg-heads on board right now.


I dont suppose I should ask another one....

Heck - this one's probably easy, but here goes.

If a long-haired tortie mom has short-haired red daughters, what was the father?
A short haired orange tabby?
 
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Yep!
I asked this because the foster mom I have now is a long-haired tortie and as soon as #1 came out a red girl, I knew her beau was a red tabby. And now that they're growing into their fur, I am thinking we only have one long-haired kitten in the bunch - which means daddy was short-haired, but carried the long-hair gene.

Super fast again!
 

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Woo Hoo. OK, here's a good one.

You are lost and alone in the woods. You stumble across an old cabin, and decide to stay there for the night. You want some heat and light, but the only things you find in the cabin are a candle, an oil lamp and a wood burning stove. You look in your pocket but you only have one match left. What do you light first?
 
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Originally Posted by bengalbabe

Do you know the answer to this...(just asking because i'd like to know)..A seal mink snow bengal has one burmese gene and one siamese gene. Some minks have blue eyes and some have other color eyes. If a blue eyed seal mink is bred to a seal lynx point (which always has blue eyes), you would get seal minks and seal lynx point kittens. All of the seal lynx points would have blue eyes, but would all of the seal minks also have blue eyes?
Cats eyes arent as cut and dry as human eyes, as eye color is polygenetic, meaning there are several genes with a number of alleles that all influence eye color. Because of this there is a wide range of eyecolors. For example the white cat that is born with blue eyes. Or the oriental cat that has a green eye with a smudge of blue in the iris.

I'm going to have to think more on this one... I'llll be baaa-ck
 
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