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Originally Posted by sweetr72  That is soooo cool...too bad I didnt know more about the parents and ancestors so I knew but I guess it will be known soon enough...so if they are all seal then they wont carry the recessive gene for another colour? It would be neat if other colours showed up but seals are pretty too!! I am so happy that you will add more photos..I love looking at them!!
Thanks,
Dawn |
If the mom and the dad both had two seal point genes then all the kittens will be seal point without carrying anytype of recessive gene. All the kittens will have two seal genes as well.
But if either one of the parents is a carrier of a recessive color, then some of the kittens could be a carrier of the recessive color. But they'll still look seal since it is the dominant color. They will only be a recessive color if both parents carry a recessive gene and the kittens inherit both of those recessive genes.
Like my Kira who is a seal point had a seal point father and a lilac point mother (lilac is recessive). So she most likely has a dominant seal gene and a recessive gene, although Himalayan genetics are pretty complicated so it can't be explained that easily.
My Sophie is a chocolate point. Her mother was a lilac point and her father was a chocolate point so she has two recessive genes. Somehow lilac and chocolate genes are related but both recessive. All the kittens in the litter were chocolate, lilac, and lilac-cream - all recessive colors.
Getting into exact colors gets really really complicated and I don't know enough about it to tell you how each color is brought about, but I do know that some colors are dominant and some are recessive.