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[littlehungrywarriorcats]

If orange is found on the X chromosome, where is black found? I have seen sources saying that male cats only inherit their base colour from their mother, is this true for all colours or just when ginger is involved?

That's just shorthand to help remember that ginger is sex-linked! Black/choc/cinnamon are not sex linked, neither are any other colors :3

Black/choc/cinnamon are TYRP1 on Chromosome D4, which is autosomal!

[littlehungrywarriorcats]

Hi Murphy! I saw a video and in it someone said ‘male cats can only get their colours from their mum because no colour is carried on the Y chromosome’ uhh what are your thoughts on this?

it's literally just O lol that moron has no idea what theyre talking about

[littlehungrywarriorcats]

Hi Murph! I was wondering something…

In your video talking about tortoiseshell cats and using something that isn’t a punnet square, you talked about the male kitten only taking the colour from the mother and nothing from the father.

Is this true for every male kitten, or only males with a tortoiseshell mother?

Sorry if you said this somewhere and I missed it.

Females have 2 X chromosomes, males only have 1.

Draw a punnett square for a female with 2 Xs mating with a male with only 1 X:

As we can see, there's a 50% chance of a male offspring and a 50% chance of a female offspring

but remember: chromosomes are made up of genes! those genes do things!

One of the genes that the X chromosome has in cats is the O locus, and what it does is determine if a cat is ginger (O allele) or non-ginger (o allele).

Now, let's do this same punnett square again, but zooming in on that O locus:

This is a ginger mom and a non-ginger father. As you can see, female offspring get 2 Xs and thus receive ginger-locus info from both parents. However, male offspring only receive an X from mother, meaning they only get ginger info from mother.

THIS is what we mean when we say "color comes from mom" or anything similar: male offspring only receive 1 X from mom, and thus male offspring will only receive X-linked genetic info from mom

[littlehungrywarriorcats]

My lovebird Leader and Deputy duo, Silverstar(bird) and Mousetail! Made with your picrew of course :D

What do you think?

(I’m also going to create a genetically accurate clan soon!)

Aww thank u!! <33 so cute!!