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The French Bulldog is famous for its specific characteristics. Like the exotic-colored coats. It can confuse people to understand all those letters. But don’t worry, we will explain everything about French Bulldog DNA.
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Important genetic information is in the nucleus of the cell. Each cell in a dog contains 39 pairs of chromosomes, 39 from each parent. One of these pairs determines the sex of the dog, while the others determine the characteristics that distinguish them. Thousands of genes make up chromosomes, carrying traits encoded in DNA.
Don’t stress over these heavy words and they’re not as hard as you think! Dominant alleles are those that only need one copy of that particular gene to show itself in a dog. But, in the case of a recessive allele, you need two copies of that particular gene to show up in the dog’s coat.
Now moving to the harder part, Alleles are two gene variants stored in the Locus.
I know the captions seem funny, but I bear with them. So, the large and small letters in the place of alleles indicate whether a dog is a carrier or not carrying a trait. That particular is a bit vague. In contrast, the small letters denote that the dog bears that particular color trait.
Colors such as Blue, Cocoa, Cream, AT, a, and pied. All of them are recessive. This means that the two copies must occupy the same position for the color to cross the set.
Why not take an example to understand this a little better? Merle and Brindle are dominant genes. This means that only one copy of the gene is in a certain region of the dog’s coat.
