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Posted by: JP at Tue Feb 28 10:19:39 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JP ]

For what it's worth, Corey is right. You can have multiple paternities within a clutch, but each egg gets only one daddy. I'm only aware of situations in plants in which a polyploid (meaning more than the customary set of chromosomes, i.e., more than the 2 sets found in snakes or humans for that matter) is viable.

There is NO way a single baby can have genetic material from more than one father.

Ocasionally the are some mistakes in the formation of gametes in which one or more chromosomes is duplicated within a sperm or egg. When joined to the opposite sex cell, you could have three copies of a particular chromosome. In such cases, a condition called trisomy occurs (Down Syndrome in humans is a condition caused by trisomy - chromosome #23 I think). There are several other trisomy conditions in humans, all causing some sort of developmental, reproductive, or mental abnormality.

SO here is a possible explanation for your retics where you get a supertiger from a tiger to normal breeding. Lets say you get a sperm cell with two sets of the particular chromosome containing the tiger gene. The resulting offspring would have "trisomy" for that chromosome (three copies of that particular chromosome).

SO...whereas a normal supert tiger retic would be TT in regards to its alleles for the tiger gene, you could possibly have a TTt individual that would express the supertiger phenotype (look). It may be that there is little or no abnormality, or that any abnormality is small enough to go unnoticed.

This is really the only resonable (albeit a stretch) explanation that I can think of....anybody out there with another?

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Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 08:41:18 2006

RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - Corey Woods, Tue Feb 28 08:57:38 2006

RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 09:04:55 2006

RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 09:05:50 2006

RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM.... - toshamc, Tue Feb 28 11:34:36 2006

Tosha..the tiger gene in retics is codom - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:36:33 2006

RE: Tosha..the tiger gene in retics is codom - RandyRemington, Wed Mar 1 07:44:49 2006

RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - Brandon Osborne, Tue Feb 28 16:32:22 2006

Re-Read my post..... - Corey Woods, Tue Feb 28 09:28:44 2006

Coreys right, but a hypothesis - JP, Tue Feb 28 10:19:39 2006

Paul Hollander... - JP, Tue Feb 28 10:42:18 2006

Bipaterity Sperm Mutations - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:23:24 2006

RE: Bipaterity Sperm Mutations - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:33:49 2006

Yep, I am there with ya...more - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:39:26 2006

RE: Yep, I am there with ya...more - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:46:00 2006

That's easy - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:47:54 2006

RE: That's easy - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:51:48 2006

Pied Crows have black heads - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 12:26:43 2006

RE: Pied Crows have black heads - JP, Tue Feb 28 12:42:09 2006

RE: Pied Crows have black heads - Ralph, Tue Feb 28 21:39:53 2006

RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - joshhutto, Tue Feb 28 13:54:20 2006

They were Super's - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 16:14:50 2006

if two sperm fertilized eachother...np - bpconnection, Tue Feb 28 09:57:03 2006

RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM.... - Paul Hollander, Tue Feb 28 10:09:22 2006

Now that insight opens this question - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 10:18:15 2006

RE: Now that insight opens this question - morphed, Tue Feb 28 10:28:16 2006

My parents always said I was a praradox - bpconnection, Tue Feb 28 11:10:24 2006

I know you were totally joking, but.... - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:20:31 2006

RE: I know you were totally joking, but.... - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:28:10 2006

Um, who? - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:26:30 2006

RE: Um, who? - morphed, Wed Mar 1 08:58:54 2006

did you see proof??? - JKBREPTILES, Wed Mar 1 09:55:36 2006

RE: did you see proof??? - morphed, Wed Mar 1 12:11:25 2006

RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - morphed, Tue Feb 28 10:21:31 2006

I think the acrosomal reaction.... - jgjulander, Tue Feb 28 11:17:10 2006

Did you read the Article? - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:31:03 2006

Well, ....Were this all went - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:45:53 2006

and, just to clarify..... - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:54:04 2006

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