I currently have both black and white lions as well as tawny lions in my story called Pride Search
I was wondering how I should go about the black and white genes and results from the 2 of them together.
Black and white both are recessive in these lions meaning that there has to be at least 2 tawny lions that carry the white or black gene to get black lions or white lions from tawny lions.
But what if you have a lion with both the black gene and the white gene? Should the black dominate over the white making it a black lion with the white gene? Should the white dominate over the black making it a white lion with the black gene? Should they cancel out giving you a tawny lion carrying both the black gene and the white gene? Should they mix completely giving you a gray lion? Should they be in separate areas giving you a bicolor lion(bicolor in cat genetics means white fur and fur of another color like black)?
Any ideas would be nice.
I was wondering how I should go about the black and white genes and results from the 2 of them together.
Black and white both are recessive in these lions meaning that there has to be at least 2 tawny lions that carry the white or black gene to get black lions or white lions from tawny lions.
But what if you have a lion with both the black gene and the white gene? Should the black dominate over the white making it a black lion with the white gene? Should the white dominate over the black making it a white lion with the black gene? Should they cancel out giving you a tawny lion carrying both the black gene and the white gene? Should they mix completely giving you a gray lion? Should they be in separate areas giving you a bicolor lion(bicolor in cat genetics means white fur and fur of another color like black)?
Any ideas would be nice.