Question about breeding, CAS, and genetics
Yecats:
Does the green alien skin get passed down recessivly?
I've had aliens mate with normal sims, and then the sim child come out normal toned, then the grandchild come out green!
Jess Maree:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 July 25, 01:45:46
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.
My sister was very blonde as a child, but now she's dark brown. I was dark red as a child, and now I'm blonde (or ginger, if you happen to be FB...).
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 July 24, 06:44:57
In other news, am I the only one who finds it shocking how many sim players don't know which eye and hair colors are recessive/dominant? Are schools just not teaching basic genetics anymore?
I was taught basic genetics, but since I don't do a Science in my Senior Schooling most of that stuff went out the window. I need to make room for Microeconomics, the History of the Catholic Church and Modern History. We get a shit load of stuff drilled into our heads on a daily basis and most of us can't retain things that won't count towards Uni/our current subjects.
maxon:
The thing about the game genetics is that the system is a simple Mendellian one. Real life genetics are generally much more complex.
Zazazu:
Quote from: Faizah on 2008 July 25, 06:34:48
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.
My sims usually have larger-than-normal eyes. I have a few small-eyes in play at the moment due to some issues with putting in a set of face templates I'd meant to get rid of plus not having face blend limitations off. But by and large, large-eyed sims. Yeah, I still am not going to see them all the time as I play at a zoom that encompasses a floor of a house. Even with my homes being relatively tight floorplans, I'm not close enough to see the eyes. I do take a lot of pictures, though, and then I'm zoomed in.
Quote from: Jess Maree on 2008 July 25, 07:24:10
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 July 25, 01:45:46
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.
My sister was very blonde as a child, but now she's dark brown. I was dark red as a child, and now I'm blonde (or ginger, if you happen to be FB...).
I had black hair when I was born. From birth to age 18, my hair would change color pretty drastically. I'd rotate between a very light brown, chocolate brown, pitch black, and a strong auburn. Always with a slight-to-strong tinge of red. It's pretty stable for the past ten years at a medium brown/auburn.
We were taught that the hair genome was much more complicated than the eye genome and shown how they were arranged, but it was explained that it was still difficult to take that information and say exactly what expressed color a person would have, seeing as no one portion was overarchingly dominant. For the purposes of exercises, we simplified to the same system the game uses.
Dark Trepie:
I look at pictures of myself when I was 5 6 and am shocked by how much of a carrot top I was then. It's faded out over the years to somewhere in between blond and red. Some people call me blond. Others call me red. I still call it red because it very noticeably there. And because it says so on my drivers licenses. :P Poor sim Trepie didn't get that option. Eaxis didn't see fit to have any in between hair colors.
The genetics thing is interesting though. Both of my parents are black haired and brown eyed. I'm sure a lot of people looked twice when they saw them carrying a toddler around with fire red hair and blue eyes. Both of my grandfathers had the same fire red hair and blue eyes though. I guess it decided to skip a generation and single me out. All of my cousins are dark haired with brown eyes.
Funny how the hair on my head decided to fade out while my facial hair didn't. The "other" hair didn't fade out either. ifyaknowwhatimean ;)
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