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[fancypost borderwidth=0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;]here is it!

so what all was frost able to teach you?

[fancypost borderwidth=0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;]yes I'm Machi c: and cinn? Is the same cinn I'm training because that isn't allowed. ^^

And that would be great if I could see the thread where she was helping you c:

[fancypost borderwidth=0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;]Oh, well if yall two know each other irl, that's cool xD I just have an issue with a member (who is still active on here) stealing my genetics lessons and passing them off as her own. Is distrust people alot lel

But aw, that's sweet c: Oh yeah, when I was staff! Did you go by another name or something? Sophia doesn't ring a bell with me ^^'

[fancypost borderwidth=0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;]That's pretty much all of them ^^ But I try not to use certain definitions to to much because all of my student gets confused on it x3

So would you like to go from the beginning? Things have changed a bit since Frostoul even put the geneticist badge into the system, so we know things that she hasn't taught or anything

[fancypost borderwidth=0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;]of course! so what I've given you below is NOT your first lesson. the first lesson will begin with black factor and dilution. what I've given you below is a brief overview of the black factor, dilution and the red factor. All we'll be doing with it, is starting you off early on guessing cats from genetic codes:
(ex: bb1, dd, Aa, Ii, Oo > Silver lilac torbie)

I find that when I do this early, it's easier for the babies to catch on ^^

Okay! first of all, we'll start with the vocab that'll be used throughout training.

Homozygous - when a cat has two copies of the same gene (e.g two black genes)
Heterozygous - when a cat has two genes, each different. (e.g one chocolate and one black)
Phenotype - the most basic way to describe something (e.g a cat, a dog)
Genotype - the word used to reperesent a gene.
Eumenalin - the word used to show the black gene.
Pheomenalin - the word used to show the red gene.

Before we start on the black gene, in my head I represent the black and red gene as a flower, the middle being the basic group (the black gene, the red gene) and the petals being sub catagories. (e.g black, chocolate, cinnamon)
now, as mentioned above the eumenalin gene has 3 strands. black, cinnamon and chocolate.

BB = Black
bb = chocolate
bb1 = cinnamon

As you also may know, all cats on wcrpg carry dilute. The dilute for black is blue, the dilute for chocolate is lilac and the dilute for cinnamon is fawn.

DD = non dilute
Dd = non dilute cat carrying the dilute gene (but all cats carry this anyways)
dd = dilute

Finally, the male and female cromosones. The male have only one O gene and the other is Y, where as the mother have both O. Kittens can only have one cromozone from each parent (including the one that makes their gender) so the male get their genes from the mother and the females get their genes from the male. but in some cases if the male is red and the female is black, then the female can be tortie, taking each 1 cromosone from each parents and 'blending' it together to make a tortie.

oY = black factor male
OY = red factor male
oo = black factor female
OO = red factor female
Oo = tortie female

Questions so far? Yes? Nah? Maybe xP

[fancypost borderwidth=0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;]Pheomenalin does not have multiple strands. It simply consists of red and it's dilute, cream. White is on an entirely different locus.

A tortie is a cat that has the red and black gene showing in its pelt.

A calico, is a tortie that has white spotting. It isn't chromosomes blending, it's the affects of different genes in its genetic code

[fancypost borderwidth=0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;]Almost.

You see, on this site, we assume all dominant parents to carry there recessive partners gene. If we do this, it allows for more variety, even if this isn't applicable irl. We do it so we don't have simple, boring answers.

For instance, if black was paired with chocolate, you would assume to be BB and bb, yeah?

WRONG! *flicks your nose*

We need to assume that that black parent is carrying one copy of that chocolate cats genes. So instead of them being BB and bb, they would Bb and bb.

Does that make sense?

[fancypost borderwidth=0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;]yepp ^^

Black xx Chocolate
- black, chocolate

Try these

Cinnamon xx Cinnamon

Chocolate xx Cinnamon

Black (carrying cinnamon) xx Chocolate (carrying cinnamon)

[fancypost borderwidth=0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;]Very good, but remember to list it all together into one answer.

Try adding dilutes

Blue xx Black

Chocolate xx Lilac

Fawn xx Cinnamon

[fancypost borderwidth=0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Georgia;]The last two are right. The first one is wrong. All dense (non diluted) cats are assumed to carry dilution. So you should have blue because it is the dilute of Black.

And again, keep everything together.

Ex:

Black xx Lilac
- black, blue, chocolate, lilac