Very interesting- I wonder where it got those percentages from... I'm assuming those percentages are if we don't know Braeburn's parent's colours?
Knowing that one was DSP and one was either Ivory OR DSP I imagine would change those percentages. That is- if I understand how the colours are inherited- and correctly understand which genes are dominant and recessive. Which I could be completely off with all this! LOL
My prediction was done with a punnett square in excel assuming Braeburn had one ivory parent and one DSP (the ivory parent would mean that Braeburn would have one recessive "no colour" pigment for foot, base shell, and stripe)... Of course the Ivory snail would pass the recessive genes for foot colour, shell base colour and stripe colour because they are recessive so the Ivory has two copies of each.
If Braeburn's parent's were both DSP no such assumption can be made as we wouldn't know his genes for colouration- so I couldn't even begin to do a punnett square...
I'm assuming the snail calculator above DOESN'T know the colour of the grandparents? Thus would be the odds if Braeburn's parent's were unknown and every gene occured with equal ratios in the wild?
If you've never had any yellow pigmentation on any of your snails- I would suspect he's unlikely to be a carrier for them... as interesting as "Gold Striped Blue" would be! That would be very cool!
Anyhow, thank you- that's very interesting. I'm going to have to get an Ivory so I can see what colour snails are produced... Only one way to figure it out... now let's hope Braeburn and his future bride get along.
Knowing that one was DSP and one was either Ivory OR DSP I imagine would change those percentages. That is- if I understand how the colours are inherited- and correctly understand which genes are dominant and recessive. Which I could be completely off with all this! LOL
My prediction was done with a punnett square in excel assuming Braeburn had one ivory parent and one DSP (the ivory parent would mean that Braeburn would have one recessive "no colour" pigment for foot, base shell, and stripe)... Of course the Ivory snail would pass the recessive genes for foot colour, shell base colour and stripe colour because they are recessive so the Ivory has two copies of each.
If Braeburn's parent's were both DSP no such assumption can be made as we wouldn't know his genes for colouration- so I couldn't even begin to do a punnett square...
I'm assuming the snail calculator above DOESN'T know the colour of the grandparents? Thus would be the odds if Braeburn's parent's were unknown and every gene occured with equal ratios in the wild?
If you've never had any yellow pigmentation on any of your snails- I would suspect he's unlikely to be a carrier for them... as interesting as "Gold Striped Blue" would be! That would be very cool!
Anyhow, thank you- that's very interesting. I'm going to have to get an Ivory so I can see what colour snails are produced... Only one way to figure it out... now let's hope Braeburn and his future bride get along.
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