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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1644757" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Truck3lt wrote: " Welcome to the board and to the cattle business. Angus cattle can be red as well as black. Black is the dominant color trait, while red is a recessive trait that when two red carriers are mated, a red calf results even though both parents are black...."</p><p></p><p>Nope not always...only 25% of the time. When 2 black cattle carrying a red gene... heterozygous black, in other words.. are mated they will have 75% of their offspring black, and 25% red. 25 % will get a black gene from each parent, resulting in homozygous black calves. 50% will get a black gene from one parent and a red gene from the other, resulting in a heterozygous black calf.. like the 2 parents were. and 25% will receive a red gene from each parent, resulting in homozygous red calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1644757, member: 40587"] Truck3lt wrote: " Welcome to the board and to the cattle business. Angus cattle can be red as well as black. Black is the dominant color trait, while red is a recessive trait that when two red carriers are mated, a red calf results even though both parents are black...." Nope not always...only 25% of the time. When 2 black cattle carrying a red gene... heterozygous black, in other words.. are mated they will have 75% of their offspring black, and 25% red. 25 % will get a black gene from each parent, resulting in homozygous black calves. 50% will get a black gene from one parent and a red gene from the other, resulting in a heterozygous black calf.. like the 2 parents were. and 25% will receive a red gene from each parent, resulting in homozygous red calf. [/QUOTE]
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