[quote=Rhetts_mama;3369683]
Quote:
Originally Posted by concretegurl 
Not completely correct. In order to be a parti-carrier, the dog would have to carry the recessive gene. Not all standards carry this gene, but any dog from a line that has thrown a parti has the potential to be a carrier. That's one of the reasons more accurate and honest AKC records would be helpful to those who wish to breed only standards.
Refusing to acknowledge they exist and refusing to register them does a disservice to all breeders.
|
I did leave that out I'm sorry when I said Parti carrier then bred to Standard I meant to add Standard, a standard with 'no history' of carrying the recessive gene in the line.
...but then again my oh my...
...that's a genetics debate too...those whom carry the gene and have had it presented in their linage and those whom carry the gene and it has and always will remain dormant-which do you label as a carrier? Technically speaking all humans carry the recessive gene to have a tail-it is simply blocked by more dominant genes-yet on super rare occasions babies around the world are born with a slight abnormal protrusion similar to an appendage (a "tail"). No, I am not speaking of the similar occurrence of chromosomal anomaly that result in extra appendages- I am talking specifically about the "tail" gene and it presence.
Ye a HUGE debate in genetic science itself is whom to and to not label a "carrier"....but for this purpose I should have added that-sorry!
