I believe that Pastels have been proven co-dominate...could be wrong. If you get a clutch from Pastel to Normal and 100% of the offspring are Pastel, I believe that is just lucky.



The one thing that I understood for sure out of his reply is that it is impossible to 100% prove dominance. But if you could produce clutches from Spider to Normal and 100% of the offspring were Spider....and you repeated this breeding and got the same 100% results....each time you achieved these results would bring you closer to proving the gene is dominate.



If you could reproduce these results 100 times, you could still not technically say it is proven though, because you cannot predict future results. Even though it is HIGHLY unlikely that a normal offspring could be created, the possibility is still minutely there. And if even a singal Normal offspring was created then it would disprove the theory of dominance.

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• Spider question... - wallyworld, Thu Mar 11 10:40:02 2004
• No - Markus Jayne, Thu Mar 11 10:46:55 2004
• Very long answer... - Renaissance, Thu Mar 11 16:45:58 2004
• Scientific question... - Exotics by Nature, Thu Mar 11 17:19:04 2004
• RE: Scientific question... - JakeM, Thu Mar 11 17:43:01 2004
• Not just one clutch, Jake... - Renaissance, Thu Mar 11 17:57:19 2004
• Duh . . . I meant to say more than one clutch. n/p - JakeM, Thu Mar 11 18:05:51 2004
• LOL... - Renaissance, Thu Mar 11 18:55:51 2004
• I am a little bit confused. - lilroach56, Thu Mar 11 19:13:06 2004
• RE: I am a little bit confused. - Euclid, Thu Mar 11 19:26:34 2004
• Perhaps that is what he meant... - Exotics by Nature, Thu Mar 11 18:05:00 2004
• RE: Perhaps that is what he meant... - JakeM, Thu Mar 11 18:15:16 2004
• RE: Perhaps that is what he meant... - 8ballpythons, Thu Mar 11 18:54:35 2004
• Lethal Syrian Hamster Mutation - RandyRemington, Thu Mar 11 20:59:33 2004
• RE: Lethal Syrian Hamster Mutation - 8ballpythons, Thu Mar 11 21:56:21 2004
• RE: Lethal Syrian Hamster Mutation - RandyRemington, Fri Mar 12 06:04:09 2004
• Lethal Dominant Mice Genes - sasheena, Fri Mar 12 08:51:01 2004
• RE: Lethal Dominant Mice Genes - 8ballpythons, Fri Mar 12 09:05:28 2004
• Snake vs. Rodent - RandyRemington, Fri Mar 12 10:44:36 2004
• RE: Snake vs. Rodent - 8ballpythons, Fri Mar 12 11:12:39 2004
• Very interesting... - Renaissance, Fri Mar 12 19:26:55 2004
• Still long winded I see.......... - Murphinski, Thu Mar 11 17:32:53 2004
• Shhhhhh... - Renaissance, Thu Mar 11 17:43:12 2004
• No wonder it's not finished. - Murphinski, Thu Mar 11 19:47:02 2004