Inheritance, Where's That Coming From

[TFX]

CRISIS asked:

My question to you is this........i see where your talking about physical traits and how they tend to "skip" generations...........but, as far as genes go the physical features are just a handfull/out of 1000's of genes.

Yes, but it is about the only tangible example to work with, particularly with young dogs that cannot be evaluated yet. However, I believe that if a dogs resembles a particular segment of his ancestry, it is very likely that more of the genetic influence in other areas are also similar. OGDOGG basically said the same thing in his last post "Not only do they look like Alien, they also are deep game bulldogs, like that line is known for."

CRISIS asked?
Do they technically come in pairs? Or do they come scrambled? Example.........take your ranchero dog, he was a spitting image of abbott as far as looks go. But did he carry the same traits abbot carried as far as athletics & performance?

I don't know, for one he is only 10 months old, and furthermore I am no longer involved in the sporting aspect of the dogs whatsoever. Believe me I would like to know, but I never will.

CRISIS wrote:
i remember reading that Bad Billy himself was a stifle wrecking monster in the [], i also remember hearing that Red Johnny was a rough SOB too!

Billy was really a one dimensional chest dog with a freak of nature bite that broke bones and puncturerd lungs. Because of his match with Holt's Gr.Ch. Booger which went 1:33, he was one of the few freakish biters in history that was also proven deeply game. That was really my appeal to the Bad Billy blood was the gameness, coupled with better than average bite. The possibility that another biter like Billy will pop out certainly exists, but so does the chance of getting hit by lightning or winning the lotto.

CRISIS asked:
so back to the ranchero example.......eventhough he is a physical carbon copy of Abbott, did the similiar performance gene come along with those physical genes, making the Complete package inheritance from Abbott and that corner of the ped..........OR.........is it more like , he LOOKS like abbott and performs more like RJ & chinaman when competing??

See the answer above.


CRISIS asked:
im not questioning your logic or theories i just want to get a better understanding of how this stuff works......do genes come scrambled or in complete "paires" persay?

I think that I am a lot more like one of my grandfather's than the other. Heck, I am more like my mom's cousins on that side than I am my own dad, not so much in looks, but in mannerisms, responses to situations etc. That is not environmentally influcenced, as I have only one of my mom's cousins once, and the other twice. I think inheritance is a genetic package. That is not to say that everything will be identical, but it will tend to be more similar to one ancestor or one side of the family than all of the others.

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Billy was really a one dimensional chest dog with a freak of nature bite that broke bones and puncturerd lungs. Because of his match with Holt's Gr.Ch. Booger which went 1:33, he was one of the few freakish biters in history that was also proven deeply game. That was really my appeal to the Bad Billy blood was the gameness...[/B]

Question for TFX (or anybody who can speak to it): I have read that Bad Billy was handicapped in that match. He liked to root deep into & under the chest & drive his opponent up off the deck, but for this go they laid down some sort of slick tarp, so that when Billy went for his favored hold, his legs slid out from under him & he just couldn't do what he wanted to. So he got the worst of it in that match, & thus the opportunity to prove himself very game. Is that true, or just rumor?