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Post by Willowmoon on Jul 5, 2020 16:53:09 GMT -5
Oh yes, I remember being confused about colouring. I didn’t know ANYTHING about cat genetics, I was 8, and I still don’t really now, but can anyone tell me if it’s normal for a dark tabby and ginger cat to have a black, grey tabby and golden tabby? Maybe it is. The eye colours seem believable to me, amber and green (does it work like that?) and jayfeather is blind. I’d love to hear an opinion on someone who has gotten up to that topic in science....cat genetics...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 18:49:10 GMT -5
No
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Post by Ivyfalcon on Jul 5, 2020 19:13:14 GMT -5
Oh yes, I remember being confused about colouring. I didn’t know ANYTHING about cat genetics, I was 8, and I still don’t really now, but can anyone tell me if it’s normal for a dark tabby and ginger cat to have a black, grey tabby and golden tabby? Maybe it is. The eye colours seem believable to me, amber and green (does it work like that?) and jayfeather is blind. I’d love to hear an opinion on someone who has gotten up to that topic in science....cat genetics... No, they couldn’t be BrambleSquirrel’s if Warriors used real cat genetics, but they couldn’t be LeafCrow’s either Basically, for pelt colors, there are two main categories, red and black. Red includes ginger and its dilute, cream. Black includes black and its dilute, gray, as well as brown (and its dilute, but it’s irrelevant to this example; it also contains cinnamon and its dilute but again they’re irrelevant). So one gene controls whether a cat is black or red, or in the case of some females, both. Males only have one copy of this gene and females have two because it is on the X chromosome (males are XY while females are XX). Therefore, males get this gene from their mothers only, while females get it from both parents. The dilute gene and the gene that controls black vs. brown are also slightly relevant here, but not as much, so for the sake of simplicity I won’t go into them unless you want me to. As far as pelt colors go, for them being BrambleSquirrel’s, Lionblaze is possible (I’m going to assume golden is just a lighter ginger), since he’d get the “red” (ginger/cream) gene from only his mother, Squirrelflight. Jayfeather would be impossible, since he too should be ginger. Hollyleaf would be a tortoiseshell, getting “red” from her mom and “black” (black/brown/gray) from Bramble, her dad. As for them being LeafCrow’s, Hollyleaf is possible, getting “black” from both her dad and mom. Jayfeather, too, would be possible, getting “black” from his mom, and the dilute gene from Crowfeather, making him gray. Lionblaze is impossible however, because Leafpool doesn’t have the “red” gene. For eyes, the genetics of that aren’t well-understood because their colors are controlled by more than just one gene. However, it is unlikely for Jayfeather to have blue eyes because they are closely tied to either white (fully or partially) or colorpoint, of which Jayfeather has neither.
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