Question about breeding, CAS, and genetics
Jelenedra:
I for one, am glad that it doesn't take that much to "breed them out." I didn't plan my current neighborhood that well. The entire 2nd generation is all black and brown haired. Thankfully, they all should have recessive blonde or red genes as well. So hopefully their spawn will have some more variety. The most interesting sprog I have currently is Pandora. She ended up with Enayla's pixie skin that has the scars on the lip and through some happy accident with binning some custom hairs, she ended up with WHITE hair. It looked good on her, so I left it, even though she is genetically black haired.
Zazazu:
I suppose she could be suffering from some sort of follicle issue. That or really, really, really prematurely gray.
I'm starting with:
five red/red simsone blond/blondone black/blacktwo black/browntwo brown/redred/red elder, out of breeding poolAll basic eye colors, but a little heavy on the gray.
The recessives are going to have to fight a bit, but they should stay firmly in play. The third generation is likely to be very red-heavy, just like Teardrop Isle is. All twelve sims are now living on one big tree-covered lot in a lean-to, living off nothing but fish and some bags of chips they found floating in the shipwreck debris. It's questionable what is in the bottles the three toddlers drink. A long road extends into the fog, but until they have enough supplies to chance a trek along it, they're pretty much staying put. Plus, the elder and the toddlers couldn't make any sort of distance.
I'm still trying to figure out how I can fit the rent situation that's going to come with AL in, once they get to the mainland. The abandoned city I can explain. The simulated residents I can do. It's getting them more money without having actual jobs until it makes sense that I can't figure, what with the nonplayables not actually being alive.
Arina:
Quote from: BastDawn on 2008 July 24, 08:21:33
I think sometime after I graduated from college, I read that new things had been learned about genetics that made predicting hair and eye color far more complex. Apparently, it's actually possible for two blue-eyed parents to have a brown-eyed child. I don't remember the mechanics of how and why it can happen, though. That might have something to do with it -- or there might have been too many cases of kids suddenly discovering that "daddy" was really the postman. :P
I'm fascinated by hair, eye and skin colour genetics, and the last time I was reading about it, I found out that all the 'genetics' lessons I had for my biology GCSE were a bunch of lies. XD I found it kinda hard to understand, but it's something like: apart from red hair, there's no such thing as a gene for a particular hair colour. There are lots of variations in 'normal melanin' hair colour because it's like a whole row of switches that control lights in a big room. Someone with really light blond hair has all the switches one way, someone with really dark black hair has them all the other, but if you have just some one way you have kinda dark or kinda light hair. And I don't think people are 100% sure how these are passed down, because I couldn't find an easy explanation XD The way I understood it, you can basically get 3 'on' switches from your dad, 2 from your mum, and end up with 5, even if they only had 3 and 2 respectively - so your hair colour is way darker than either of theirs :S I find eye colour even more confusing - the thing I always have to remember is that melanin is yellow and not brown, or I can't get my head around green eyes (in fact, I still can't, but I remember that was one of the things I told myself to remember :().
All of this is why I don't understand why people can't get their heads around Sims 2 genetics (which, unless I'm completely mistaken, is the thing with the squares from my GCSEs). And I'm glad to hear that CAS genetic-mixing counts when breeding that sim later on! I did that for a few YA sims who I never bred, so I never worked out if it had any effect XD
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Jelenedra on 2008 July 24, 13:40:22
My sister was born BLONDE and slowly her hair darkened until it was the same shade as mine.
That is basically how it works, yes. It means she's not REALLY a blonde. Many kids have lighter hair than what they ultimately end up with. It's part of the evolutionary whatzit of blondness.
Faizah:
I've never placed much stock in high school level genetics. I was told that left-handedness was a recessive gene. My brother and I have two left-handed parents. We are both right-handed.
I know all too well the dominance of hair colour in the Sims (black/brown over blonde/red) but I must admit, I've only a vague idea of how the eyes go. I never really notice eye colour, unless the skin/eye pairing is only half alien. Eyes are just too small to care about, I don't play with it zoomed in close enough to tell the difference beyond alien/not-alien.
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