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Hello! Have you ever wondered how cat genetics work? Well here, you can learn! If you have any questions, just ask!
Please always reply, and not comment! 😀
Lesson ONE: Gender-linked stuff
There are three base coats. Black, brown, and cinnamon. These are also known as “B”, “b1”, and “b2”. We’ll talk about those later.
Red is a separate gene. Red can be added to a cat’s coat to create a tortie.
Females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. The X is the chromosome which carries the color. Males have one, which they get from their mother. This is why male tortoiseshells are so rare—a cat will need two X chromosomes to be tortoiseshell. Most male tortoiseshells are sterile and cannot have kittens. Females, having two X chromosomes, get one from each parent.
Here; let’s say you’re breeding a red female and a black tom. The male kittens will be redlike their mother and the females will be tortoiseshell. Simple, right?
Again, if you have any questions, please ask! 😀 And, again, please remember to reply instead of commenting.
Oh this makes sense!
I just realized this—note that only RED is expressed on the X chromosome. If a male has a brown mother, and a black father, he will probably be black due to the gene dominance. If you don’t understand black and brown yet, read below!
Hello! Have you ever wondered how cat genetics work? Well here, you can learn! If you have any questions, just ask!
Please always reply, and not comment! 😀
Lesson TWO: Dilution
Okay, when I learned about dilution, I was told a situation. Here’s one based on it.
So, let’s say you love ginger cats. You breed ginger with ginger, because, of course your gonna have ginger kittens! But, wait! One’s cream?
This is dilution. Ginger, black, brown and cinnamon cats are all dense. The fully dense gene is called D/D. Gray, cream, lilac and fawn cats are dilute. The dilute gene is called d/d. You might be thinking, “But if both cats are dense, how could one be dilute?”
Well, the parent don’t have the genes D/D or d/d! The gene they have is called D/d. This means the cat is dense, but carries dilution. They appear dense, but their offspring can be dilute as long as the mate carries dilution too. If two cats with the D/d gene breed, the kittens have a 25% chance of being dilute, a 25% chance of being dense, and a 50% chance of having the D/d(carries dilution) gene! Here’s a very helpful punnet square! If two cats with the D/D gene breed, of course, all kittens will be dense. Same goes for dilute(d/d) cats breeding: the kittens will be dilute! Now, let’s say you breed a dilute cat with a fully dense cat.. *drumroll*
The kittens will all be dense! Why is this? Dense is dominant over dilute; without a dilute gene in each parent, all kittens will be dense!
Remember: this all goes for other colored cats too. With dilution, a black cat with become blue(gray), a red cat will be cream, a chocolate cat will be lilac/lavender, and a cinnamon cat will be fawn/sable.
Note: Lilac/Lavender is a pinkish, brownish, grayish color. It’s a bit hard to explain. Look it up if you’d like to see!
Again, if you have any questions, please ask! 😀 And, again, please remember to reply instead of commenting.
Cool! Question: how is the green color made?
In eyes?
If you mean eyes, one of the parents must have green eyes. I think the chance is random, unless both parents have green eyes, which has a 100% chance. Unless a kitten is albino, or white.
Now.. fur color? Impossible 😛
Well… i meant fur cause i searched it up and it says it was possible… but it looked like the pictures were edited. I’m not sure? But thanks anyways now i know how green eyes are made! 🙂
Yeah, those are completely edited. Unless they were painted.. hopefully safe paint. 😅
I looked up pictures and found a lot about an emerald green cat in Bulgaria. Apparently, it likes sleeping in a pile of powdered green paint in a local garage!
Oh my that’s really funny about that cat in Bulgaria! And thanks for that i was a bit confused about it before 🙂
ooh these are very interesting ive never learned that much about cat genetics :0 please continue!! unrelated but i can never spell the word punnet 😛
This is so helpful! 🙂 Great job writing it!
Thanks 😀
these are really cool hollykit! cat genetics has always been confusing to me so i love this 😀
Oh this is so helpful!
confusing but I think I get it 🙂
Remember to click the reply button! It’s okay, I just want this on one page
ok 🙂
Hello! Have you ever wondered how cat genetics work? Well here, you can learn! If you have any questions, just ask!
Please always reply, and not comment! 😀
Lesson THREE: Base Coats
Remember how I talked about the base colors in the first lesson? That’s what you’ll learn about here!
There are three base colors: black, chocolate, and cinnamon. These are also called B, b1, and b2..
Let’s say you really like black and cinnamon cats. So, what do you do? Breed them! What would these kittens look like? Ooh! Swirled with black and cream…
But they’re only black?>
This is because black is dominant over chocolate and cinnamon! If you breed black with chocolate.. the kittens will likely be black! Same goes for breeding chocolate with cinnamon: the kittens will be chocolate! Here’s how it goes:
B>b1>b2
Now, lets say you bred.. for example, a red cat with a cinnamon cat. You’d get a cinnamon tortie! Red works differently—it adds to the coat to make tortoiseshell, unless the cat is fully red.
Now, those kittens you bred? The black kittens actually have the B/b2 gene! This means they are black and cinnamon, but only black is expressed—the coat will not show any cinnamon whatsoever. If that cat breeds with another cat with the B/b2 gene, the kittens could possibly be cinnamon! This goes for b1/b2, too. Here’s all the genes:
B/B(black)
B/b1(black, carries chocolate)
B/b2(black, carries cinnamon)
b1/b1(chocolate)
b1/b2(chocolate, carries cinnamon)
b2/b2(cinnamon)
Now, if you breed b1/b2 with B/b2, you could get black, chocolate, or cinnamon kittens!
So, each parent must at least carry the gene to get the color, unless the color wanted is dominant to the other(s).
Remember, this applies to the dilutions—blue, lilac, and fawn—since they are simply dilute versions of the base.
Note: red is dominant over all, but again, creates tortie if only one chromosome (for females) holds the color!
Again, if you have any questions, please ask! 😀 And, again, please remember to reply instead of commenting.
How does white work? Or will this be explained in another lesson?😛
It’ll be explained! 😀 Probably next lesson
how do markings work though.. hmmmmmmmmm
wait so a black-red tortie is a thing
ormaybeimjuststupidhheheh:0 *searches up*When I think of tortie, I think of black and red. xD I’m a black and red tortie
Unless you’re thinking of red as a red red.
lol i think i was just being stupid that dayy 😛 when i think of torties i normally get a mapleshade/spottedleaf vibe oof 😛
But.. they Mapleshade is a red and black tortie.
I think Spottedleaf is a chocolate and red tortie.
the way i think of mapleshade is a white-ginger-black tortie same for spottedleaffff 😛
Well, she might have white, but that’s a different thing. If she’s black, ginger and white, as long as there isn’t too much white, she’s a black and red tortie. If she has a lot of white, she’s a black and red calico 😛
ohh okay you have brain cells 😛
Note that these are not gender linked! I thought they were. Only red is gender linked.
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Find That Error, Round One!
1. The Dark Forest is called DarkClan.
2. Dovewing’s eye color is listed as pale amber
3. Bramblestar, Ravenpaw’s Path
1. The Last Hope
2. N/A
3. N/A I think?
2. No
3. Bramblepaw is an apprentice when Squirrelkit and Leafkit are kits, even though he was a warrior when they were born.
I mean N/A haha
Did you have something for number one?
No 🙁