Question about snow/tengerine dominant/recessive

josabby

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I bred my female hypo tangerine with my male mack snow. The first clutch hatch yesterday. One of the babies is definately a snow, with what looks like will be a jungle pattern. The other baby looks like it will be a tangerine. I'm just not sure which trait is dominant, and I don't know the genotypes of the parents. All I can find online or in books is that tangerine is line bred.
 
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acpart

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Snow: generally considered to be co-dominant (as opposed to incomplete dominant) but in effect it means that the offspring will either get the snow gene and be Mack snows or won't get it and will have no snow genetics themselves and consequently won't pass on any snow characteristics. Statistically you have a 50% chance to get a snow baby from your combination

Tangerine: as you read, it is line bred and you will get various degrees of tangerine.
These 2 traits are not interrelated, so each will function independently and you'll get various combinations.

Aliza
 
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