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I am familiar with genetics but never really knew about if these genes are dominant or recessive:

1. pastel- when bred to a normal, are 50% of offspring pastel (dominant trait?)

2. stripe?

Also, is a CORAL albino a bloodline? In other words, if you breed a Kahl strain albino with a Sharp strain, the babies would be hets. Do corals have to be bred with only corals to end up with homozygous recessive offspring(aa)?

Thanks,

Mat

Pastels are not morphs.
There are different strains of stripes. The most well known might be kahl stripe.
Coral is not strictly speaking a bloodline no, it's found in lots of bloodlines.
If you bred a Kahl to a Sharp all the offspring would (theoretically) be DOUBLE hets.
Laughs, homo recessive, you mean coral albinos? You can get a coral albino baby from a coral albino and a regular non-coral het, or vice versa, or any other pair that can give you an albino where one of the parents are coral. Really great looking normals approach the corals though, so you shouldn't jump to the conclusion that you have a coral because it is orange. My friend has a beautiful albino he bought from the Burke's, with lots of orange on it, but it is not a coral, just a really really nice albino.
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