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I am still wrapping my mind around the genetics in the BP world. I am getting there but it seems a bit overwhelming to start out.

So my question is, what could I expect to get % wise from a pewter male bred to a female bumblebee?

And one opinion based question too. What would you pair a bumblebee female with?
 
Whew! I think this is right:

1/16: Normal
1/16: Spider
1/16: Cinny
2/16: Pastel
1/16: CinnySpider
1/16 SuperPastel
2/16: Bee
2/16: Pewter
1/16: Killerbee
2/16: Pewterbee
1/16: Superpastel Cinny (Sterling?)
1/16 Superpastel Spider Cinnamon
 
Oh good grief! lol. That is insane. :eek: Guess I better save this somewhere for the future because there is no way I will remember that.
 
and if you wanna the % here is what it will come up


Male = Pewter
Female = Bumblebee

Offspring predicted as:

6.25% Normal
6.25% Cinnamon
12.50% Pastel
12.50% Pewter
6.25% Super Pastel
6.25% Sterling Pastel
6.25% Spider
6.25% CinnaBee
12.50% Bumblebee
12.50% Pewter, Spider
6.25% Killer Bee
6.25% Sterling Pastel, Spider
 
There are genetics calculators out there, but you still have to figure out how to enter the parents genetics. I usually just do them by hand. For this setup these were the codes I used:

Pewter Male: PpCcss (One copy of each of the Co-dominant Pastel and Cinnamon Genes)
Bee Females: PpSscc (One copy of each of the Co-dominant Pastel and Spider Genes)

Combinations the male can pass on: PCs, Pcs, pCs, pcs
Combinations the female can pass on: PSc, Psc, pSc, psc

So you set up a square with the male's four possibilities on the top and the females four possibilities on the side, giving you 16 possible outcomes, a few of which overlap, and then you have to decipher it:

PPSscc for example is a killerbee. It sounds really complicated, but it isn't that bad, and there are genetics calculators that will do them for you, you just have to know how to enter the parents and decipher the results.
 
Thank goodness there are people that will help us punnett square challenged people out!!

My head just exploded trying to comprehend all those odds and percentages.
 
Just be careful with the repeats, though. The male and female can both pass on two copies of each combination, not just one. In this case, each parent's four combos repeat twice, so it evens out and one can just do a 4x4 matrix instead of 8x8. That doesn't always work, though. :)
 
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