Co-dominant and dominant are the same thing, then? A dominant gene is the capital letter in a punnett square - take Normal, which we'll call NN. NN x PN (normal with pastel) means you have a 50% chance of getting a pastel. Pastel then would be dominant, since it appears OVER the normal gene, which is also dominant since it appears over recessive genes. Er, wait.

Superpastel = dominant form, since it is the expression of the homozygous pastel genes. A "pure" pastel, with no normal color genes. Meaning that it's not really the "super", it's just...it's like the red pea plant in Mendel's experiments*. Red plant white plant = pink plant. The super is the red plant, the normal is the white - combined, they make a pink plant, or a pastel.

Or am I completely off? Thanks for humoring me so far, lol.

~jenny

* Mendel's experiments, in case I was confusing - he's the guy who did the first genetic experiments with pea plants, based on their flower colors. When I say "red pea plant" I mean a pea plant with red flowers.
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