Flower Genetics

Using the flowers that you are given, try to come up with a flower just like the one in the upper right of the game screen. Choose two Source Flowers to cross by clicking on them and dragging them to the crossing area. Click CROSS to make the cross and see what flowers result. If you don't get exactly what you want in that generation, drag the first flowers you crossed to the trash can at lower right and replace them with two of the flowers you generated. When you have one you think is genetically the same, place it in the box under Target Flower to check.

The letter S governs the gene for stem size, letter F for flower size, letter P for petal color, and C for center color. The options for stem sizes are SS, Ss, and ss. Flower sizes can be FF, Ff, ff. And so on. The basic principle of genetics is that you mix two parent sets of genes, take one letter from each parent, and get a new set of genes. To tell what new genes you can get, take one letter from each parent. For instance mixing a Ss with a Ss gives you the options of SS (one S from each parent), Ss (one S from one parent, a s from the second parent), Ss (one s from one parent, a S from the second parent), and ss (one s from each parent). Then when you add additional gene pairs, the options get much more complex. Another set could be one parent SSFFPPCc and the second parent SSFFPPCc. The new flower will be any of these four options: SSFFPPCC, SSFFPPCc, SSFFPPCc, or SSFFPPcc. This is because you take one "c" from each parent.

If this is too abstract for you, use a Punnett diagram. Wikipedia provides this one:

You simply take one letter from each row and column, to create a new set of genes. Now say you are aiming for a specific set of genes. You are trying to get BB, and the parents are Bb and bb. Obviously you cannot get BB from this match, since the 2nd parent doesn't have a B, it only has b's. What you would do is cross the two, and select the offspring that is Bb. You may have to cross the flowers a couple times. Once you arrive at Bb, cross it with the original Bb parent. One of your new offspring should be BB. Below are guides to specific flower genetics, in case you get stuck on one.

Note: There can be dozens of different options in some crossings, so you may need to cross one set more than once in order to reach a desired result.

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Using the flowers that you are given, try to come up with a flower just like the one in the upper right of the game screen. Choose two Source Flowers to cross by clicking on them and dragging them to the crossing area. Click CROSS to make the cross and see what flowers result. If you don't get exactly what you want in that generation, drag the first flowers you crossed to the trash can at lower right and replace them with two of the flowers you generated. When you have one you think is genetically the same, place it in the box under Target Flower to check.

The letter S governs the gene for stem size, letter F for flower size, letter P for petal color, and C for center color. The options for stem sizes are SS, Ss, and ss. Flower sizes can be FF, Ff, ff. And so on. The basic principle of genetics is that you mix two parent sets of genes, take one letter from each parent, and get a new set of genes. To tell what new genes you can get, take one letter from each parent. For instance mixing a Ss with a Ss gives you the options of SS (one S from each parent), Ss (one S from one parent, a s from the second parent), Ss (one s from one parent, a S from the second parent), and ss (one s from each parent). Then when you add additional gene pairs, the options get much more complex. Another set could be one parent SSFFPPCc and the second parent SSFFPPCc. The new flower will be any of these four options: SSFFPPCC, SSFFPPCc, SSFFPPCc, or SSFFPPcc. This is because you take one "c" from each parent.

If this is too abstract for you, use a Punnett diagram. Wikipedia provides this one:

You simply take one letter from each row and column, to create a new set of genes. Now say you are aiming for a specific set of genes. You are trying to get BB, and the parents are Bb and bb. Obviously you cannot get BB from this match, since the 2nd parent doesn't have a B, it only has b's. What you would do is cross the two, and select the offspring that is Bb. You may have to cross the flowers a couple times. Once you arrive at Bb, cross it with the original Bb parent. One of your new offspring should be BB. Below are guides to specific flower genetics, in case you get stuck on one.

Note: There can be dozens of different options in some crossings, so you may need to cross one set more than once in order to reach a desired result.

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