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Friday, September 28. 2007

Labrador Color: More on dog genetics

If you cross a Black Lab with a Yellow Lab, what color pups do you get?

Answer: It depends on the parental genotype, not their phenotype, of course. Thus Labs commonly have mixed-color litters.

It's too bad people don't work the same way. It might be fun to wonder what color your kid would be.

Labrador color genetics made simple here. They include all 81 possible crosses between phenotypic black, chocolate, and yellow Labs. It becomes clear why most Labs are black.

Photo: A nice Lab who has just eaten the Easter Bunny a Jackrabbit

Posted by Bird Dog at 08:00 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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that's a hare & the dog that bit him
#1 buddy larsen on 2007-09-28 13:20 (Reply)
Overtitled Bad Poem but With a More Complex Rhyming Scheme Than Some

The bitches of Hell bay
We’ll rue and ruin the day
As helpless hare, buck and bunny
Try to outrun our canine tunny

Too late!
All crunch with a touch o hunny.
#2 fi fi cummings on 2007-09-28 19:14 (Reply)
sorry about that
#2.1 Anonymous on 2008-04-13 13:07 (Reply)
fi fi's a cat, btw
#3 f. f. c on 2007-09-28 19:34 (Reply)
that catches voles and sometimes dry food in her bowl
#4 f.f.c. on 2007-09-28 19:37 (Reply)
And a mole on the knoll
#4.1 BD on 2007-09-28 19:39 (Reply)
that's the spirit!
#4.1.1 fi fi on 2007-09-28 19:45 (Reply)
But i give up, totally and completely. No more fun, benefit of the doubt, or easy, trusted humanity and delicious rhymes left in certain quarters. Dead hares, pigs and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-bb.

There's just gotta be more for a nice carnivore.
#4.1.2 fi fi on 2007-09-28 20:32 (Reply)

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