[Dragaera] Breaking the Cycle - Genetic Purity

[Philip Hart]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Maximilian Wilson wrote:

> On 8/28/06, Alipaz, Julie <jalipaz at illumina.com> wrote:
> >
> > instead of a Dzur/Yendi=Yendi. The only way to get two copies of the
> > Yendi gene is to breed a Yendi with a Yendi, and cross your fingers
> > (hoping that no recessive traits are getting passed on instead). If
> > Yendi is the dominant gene, it will be very hard to purge recessive
> > non-Yendi traits from the gene pool.
> >
> >
> > Unless you back cross to a yendi then you have a 1/4 chance that you
> > will get a homozygous recessive yendi trait popping up.
>
> Right; which is why you're crossing your fingers.


I seem not to have gotten one of Julie's comments - the attribution above
confuses me.  Anyway, I don't see the problem with having to cross one's
fingers occasionally.  Maybe there's just some corruption in House Yendi.