Genetic Dominance Help? (with notes)

[Trigedakru]

Hello! I'm working on my own guide for the game, and I see so many people with lists of genetic dominanace. I have to wonder - how do you know? Was it just by testing? I ask because I started a new island, one had spots and recessive panda, while I believe the other one had no marking and recessive stripes.

I've read that the dominanace goes in this order for markings: No Marking - Stripes - Spots - Panda

So I bred my two about 4 times. I got 1 stripes, 2 spots, and 1 panda.

The one with no marking and stripes, I gave the stripes mutation. I figured, there'd be 1 chance of no markings, 2 chances of stripes, and 1 of spots and panda. Of the 4 babies, I think at least 3 of them had recessive stripes.

So... how am I supposed to figure out what's dominanat and recessive?

[Trigedakru]

This post is just notes for myself.

Father, mother, and their first 4 children.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133227495

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133227511

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133227540

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133227558

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133227575

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133227591

Patterns

Parents both have no pattern. 1 rec. stripes, 1 rec. panda.

	No Pattern	Stripes
No Pattern	2x No Pattern	No Pattern, Stripes
Panda	No Pattern, Panda	Stripes, Panda?

3 children have no pattern with rec. stripes.
1 child has panda with rec. stripes

A 5th child has double no pattern.

6th - no pattern, panda

3rd Generation

Parents: none stripes x panda stripes

1 - no pattern, panda

Parents: none stripes x none stripes

1 - double stripes

[Pengu]

Dots is actually more dominant than stripes. And for figuring out which is dominant and recessive, the gene(s) that are exressed are dominant (except for fur, paw and mane color genes, those are co dominant) And for the order of dominant to recessive, usually you go around your nichelings, seeing which gene is dominant over the other and test different gene combos out

[Rho]

Originally posted by Pengu (Dawncreek):

Dots is actually more dominant than stripes. And for figuring out which is dominant and recessive, the gene(s) that are exressed are dominant (except for fur, paw and mane color genes, those are co dominant) And for the order of dominant to recessive, usually you go around your nichelings, seeing which gene is dominant over the other and test different gene combos out

Spots are always dominant over Stripes, and Mask is dominant over Stripes. No pattern is dominant over all patterns. (in the new updates, we use mask, not panda pattern anymore)

You can tell if it's dominant or recessive depending on the interaction between the two. If your Spotted babies always have mask or stripes in the 2nd, unactive slot, then mask is recessive to stripes.

Note: some things like gills/poison fangs and purple and yellow eyes may switch back and forth, but there is a general pattern, so for these I would say they are equal, or just go with the most common scenario/result rather than the unusual.

The long and the short of it is that you should just note which is active and which is inactive in the new born babies. Niche uses mostly simple Mendelian dominant/recessive genetics, so it will be clear once you start making your observations.

Just so you know, lots of other people have already made guides, such as on Niche's Wiki page and on Steam (it's somewhere on these pages).

If none of this makes sense, please consult either Wikipedia (for Mendelian genetics and/or dominant/recessive alleles) or a Biology textbook, genetics chapters.

[MerAndFrog]

Like Rho said, there is a lot of information about genes already gathered on the Niche Wikia[niche.wikia.com]! You can read about all the Genes and their dominance[niche.wikia.com]!