Wow... I just realized how often I come here.
Anyway, Laylana is a White she-cat with amber eyes:
And Dechyper is a black tom with amber eyes:
And that's that! Both are bio-born (XD), and I'm not sure about Laylana's parents but i'm pretty sure one was white and the other was like brown or something (I remember you saying something about how white is a 'cover-up color' or something like that so that's why i told you her parents colors.) and Dechyper's parents were both black.
Are they loners or what? Because I want a kit! Especially with these colorings. Wait for groovy, but I am saying my prediction:
White(50%)
Black
Brown tabby
Can have white on them.
Eyes will be 50% amber, and the white's will have about a fifty-fifty chance of blue or amber.
Thanks! We don't get to rp together nearly as much as we should.
You could get Frogstep's results actually, but remember, pure white and white spotting are made by two separate genes on two different loci. One has nothing to do with the other although in this case Laylana would be covering up the white spotting, with her pure white. We can say she's a brown tabby/white underneath her white.
So the results would be: pure white {50% chance} black, brown tabby, or either of those with white spotting.
Oh I thought that was the same gene, but yay! I finally got one completely right, well except for Frogstep's litter which I completely did myself and check it was correct!
Very, very rarely, you do get a pure white cat that results from extreme expression of the white spotting gene. This is only when two copies are inherited, two copies usually gives you more white than one {though I stretch that a little on the site}. However, to get a pure white cat like this is extremely rare.
Interestingly, a similar occurrence is seen in pied colour mutations of parrots. A pied can be a little as one or two yellow spots.
I own a Kakariki parrot like this, who had just three yellow spots on his normal-colour body, and four yellow flight feathers. (He also has two pink toes from his pied genes, so cute!)
But pied can also result in a full-yellow bird, sometimes with only a few tiny spots of the original colour visible!
It's called variable expression or variable penetrance. When the gene's effects are not the same each time. Other things come into play, not all of which are understood.
Oh sort of like what Brightheart supposedly looks like?
Brightheart is mainly white with a few ginger patches, so she genetically would be the same as a ginger cat with a few white patches, even though the pattern would be different :)
Yeah that is what I thought, though going through the books, the cats must have a lot of recessive'sotherwise the Erins just chose colors because only a few truely make genetical since.
She might, she might not be. There are exceptions to this, but generally a cat with mostly ginger or any other colour, and very little white, will only have one copy of white spotting. a cat with two copies usually has more white. Again there are exceptions. Rollpaw is mostly white with a few ginger spots and a ginger tail. He only has one copy.
Not mine either. xDDDDD
Thanx though! And Chris, the parrot sounds adorable! <3
My kit will be pure white, but have a patch on his tail, that looks black. The black just barely shows, though because it is basically two pin stripes, but is truely a wrinkling in the fur. She will have amber eyes, which is 50% and in this case the white cats will not have blue eyes, because they are a completely different gene(I think). Nor will any of the other cats have blue eyes.
How about Heavykit/Heavypaw/Heavywind