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Would a Bumble Bee x Pastel and a Spider x Super Pastel, produce the same results?

What would a Bumble Bee x Super Pastel produce?

Thank you,
Ken
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>Would a Bumble Bee x Pastel and a Spider x Super Pastel, produce the same results?

No.

Bumble Bee x Pastel -->
1/8 Super pastel spider = killer bee
1/8 Super pastel
2/8 Pastel spider = bumblebee
2/8 Pastel
1/8 spider
1/8 normal

Spider x Super Pastel -->
1/2 Pastel spider = bumblebee
1/2 pastel

>What would a Bumble Bee x Super Pastel produce?

1/4 Pastel
1/4 Pastel spider = bumblebee
1/4 Super pastel
1/4 Super pastel spider = killer bee

Paul Hollander

"Would a Bumble Bee x Pastel and a Spider x Super Pastel, produce the same results?"

No. An important thing to remember about genetics is that at reproduction each animal contributes one of their two copies of each gene (some exceptions around gender chromosomes) to the offspring. So even though the super pastel has two copies of the pastel mutant version of the gene at the pastel location it can only give one of those copies to its baby. The spider only has normal copies of the pastel gene to give so the babies from spider X super pastel could not include any killer bees.

But the bumble bee X pastel cross could produce killer bee because pastel is on both sides.

"What would a Bumble Bee x Super Pastel produce?"

This would produce eggs that each have the following chances:

25% chance bumblebee
25% chance pastel
25% chance killer bee
25% chance super pastel

Thank you both!

Ken
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1.0 Albino Ball Python (Apu)
0.5 Normal Ball Pythons (Norma, Nova, Nala, Nimeesha, Nyoka)

1.0 Desert Tortoise (Tubbs) from Tortoise Rescue
1.0 Boxer (Shadow)


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