[Jacob-list] genetics.....

[Hobsickle at aol.com]

My personal, OPINION (no scientific evidence yet) is that such brown-spotted 
sheep carry a brown gene (heterozygous) and in those brown spots the 
countermanding non-brown gene did not "turn on" (for example, we've all seen or heard 
of a person with one brown eye and one blue eye) -OR- that spot is the result 
of a somatic mutation.

In a message dated 9/29/03 1:20:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
buffgeese at yahoo.com writes:


> So don't forget about the sheep that have a spot of
> brown on an otherwise black/white animal.  Those
> tri-colors exist and are part of the breed heritage.
> 


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