about ALL the ways things happen in genetics, but I am still paying off my last student loans.LOL
I know that sometimes genes can kind of break and flip so that they match up differently or even split and end up with one parent contributing BOTH halves of the genetic code for a section of ther DNA if that makes sense. So it IS possible I believe in RARE circumstances that a trait can come from one parent and still be recessive. The offspring from them would then either be homozygous for that recessive trait or 100% hets but that happening in 5 babies without some type of predisposition for that by that parent to do that are very slim. The father being an F3 could possibly have developed some "weakness" for this type of thing due to inbreeding/line breeding but we will never know now. Like I mentioned before there are also a couple types of genes that "regulate or release other genes to exhibit themselves without a match from the other parent so to speak. So, ONLY time will tell I suppose. Thanks for your input and I am glad it didn't come across wrong because I really want an open-minded "meeting of the minds" so to speak. I KNOW we have some people in the field and/or the knowledge of many of the exceptions to the rules that could offer some "ideas" and I really hope this hasn't gotten too far down the page so that they miss it.
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Ty Hege
Rat Race Solutions
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