What species pass on thier genetics??

I will ask my boyfriend .We have Fallow deer here on my farm, he has had them since 95



I bought my first one as a pet from him several years ago to add to my whitetail farm, so I am kind of new at the Fallow Deer.

That being said, we have male fallow deer from different bloodlines our males from the one bloodlines antler mature much sooner @ two years old thay have a rack of a Four year old deer.And we also have spotted and chocolate and we had white...We are looking for White again if anyone has them...that being said I know they produce the same colors...I will go through pictures and see about the rest...But I didn't want to see ya hanging so I figured I would give it a try...I will look into this more...

Good Luck and Happy Easter.

Billiejo

Our Elk do pass individual characteristics, from antler characteristics to personality. If they didn't you would be able to breed with any cow and any bull and you would never know what was going to happen. I would be shocked it this isn't true with every animal. If not you wouldn't be able to improve.



We have a bull that throws nothing but typical bulls with desent 1's and 2's, With small 3's and big tops.

All species pass on some sort of genetic's . Gosh the dairy and beef breeds live and die by what the bulls will pass on down ! Dog breeders watch their mating very close to breed out of genetic defects and into better ones . Look at the number of people that look dang near identical to one of their parents . I think all species pass down something from one generation to the other . Just a thought !!

Why would you think whitetails would pass down antler characteristics more then elk or red deer or mule deer or say reindeer or any other antlered crevid for that matter ? I'd think them all pretty much the same !! Just my opinion ..

Deer have 48 chromosomes, where the DNA is. A fawn gets half its genetic makeup (24 chromosomes) from its sire and half (the other 24) from its dam. I like to think of it like 2 suits of cards, one clubs, the other hearts. If you lay the cards down in matching sets, kings together, queens together, jacks together, and so on down to the 2's, you'll get the visual I'm aiming for.



Now, lets say, each card tells the fetus deer what to do; the kings say how the antlers will one day grow, (clubs is spectacular, hearts is modest) the queens say what the color will be, (clubs is brown, hearts is white,) the jacks say how big it will get, (clubs, tall, hearts, short,) and the 2's say if it's a boy (clubs) or girl (hearts). Lets say, as you were laying the cards down, you were only careful to keep the sets together, but you didn't care which went down first, red or black, so as you look at the line of cards, some you see are red, some black.



All the information is there, its just that some is stronger (more visible in this illustration) than others. So if the card on top tells the developing deer that one day he will have huge antlers (of if a doe, one day she will carry that gene to pass on big antlers) then thats what the baby deer grows to show.



So, it appears that it's a different mix every time, but really, the future fawn only has a 50/50 chance for something that one or the other parent has. All species work this way, they just have different numbers of chromosomes.



This is the simple explanation, LOL! There are also various modifiers at work, and epigenetics, but that gets more confusing, =-D If you want a really cool website with movies with simple explanations, check this out,

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ I had fun watching the movies, =-D