Inheritance of Genes
Motoki:
Okay, boy do I feel dumb. :-[
I found the source of the mystery black haired child's recessive red gene. It wasn't from her townie mother, but her CAS father. I had forgotten I had done this, but he was one of a group of sims I made in the CAS via breeding, cross breeding and rebreeding various sims over several generations instantly in the CAS so I could end up with sims who were attractive and had features that mixed well with my other sims to make nice looking kids.
Basically, I'd take a couple of template sims, use the create a baby tool a few times until I got a kid I liked, aged the kid to adult, save the sim, delete the parents, make another one via this method, breed the two, and maybe delete the parents and so forth. So the dad came out of the CAS with recessive red genes and recessive medium skin though he has tan.
Well that's one mystery solved. :P
Jelenedra:
I used to do that with my CAS. I never thought of deleting them though. I always just dropped them in a pool since it's a nice quiet way of dying.
Motoki:
Well if you delete them in the CAS before you load the family it's no big thing. Plus you only have room for 8 sims and I was doing a whole bunch of generations and cross breeding so I had to get rid of some before I could make even more. ;)
Jysudo:
Quote from: IgnorantBliss on 2006 March 16, 14:43:43
Yes, the genetics of the facial characteristics are confusing. I used to be under the impression that once a certain feature, say, and eye shape, is labelled dominant, it stays dominant throughout the generations (that's what it says in the guide... ). But then I noticed that when Brandi had her third son, a male clone of herself, his listed dominant facial features differed from hers. So, apparently, the dominance of each feature is reassigned for each sim, and an eye shape that got inherited as dominant may turn recessive, and so on.
I just checked the guide on this. (Keeping in mind that the guide has inaccrurate information on some other genetics issues) it says that, when a sim is made in CAS, each region of the face is randomly labeled dominant or recessive, but the chances of a certain feature to be labeled dominant depends on the gender of the sim. A male sim has a 66% chance of his brow, nose or jaw being labeled dominant, and "only" a 50% chance with eyes and mouth. Vice versa for females (but there are more features listed in the DNA in SimPE than these five mentioned, so it's incorrect at least in that regard).
About the chances of the features being passed on, the guide says that if one parent has a dominant feature while another recessive the child has a 66% chance of inheriting the dominant one. When both are dominant or recessive, then the chances are 50/50.
But, considering how correct the guide has been on some other issues, I wouldn't count on this information.
Thanks for typing this out. I think the guide might be correct in some of the points above. It is possible that recessive genes can become dominant. For instance, green colored maxis eyes. The grandmother (mother's side) have green colored eyes and it was passed on to the grandchild when both parents have customised eye colors (so here its 50%-50%, I suppose) . But other than that, every other feature of the father was passed onto the baby girl - nothing was passed from the beautiful mother to the child. The child look ugly ( actually she looks realistic and might be considered pleasant looking in RL but since we are playing a game of dolls, i want my dolls to be perfect) and now I am thinking of a pool accident.
Its very strange. I noted that when the child inherit a particular skin color of a parent, the child will inherit all facial features of the parent whom it inherit the skin color. I don't know if these 2 are related but I have several instances of this occuring.
This is getting extremely disturbing for me... >:(
Simsample:
Jysudo, I'm not sure whether this would help you or not...
http://www.joodiff.com/simgen02.htm
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