(06-18-2015 05:42 AM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: Given a Guitar known to hide Mysterious (GM, above) and another Guitar, which is a Starter, hiding an unknown (Gx, above), the possible offspring are:
GG
GG
GM
Mx, where x is either Mysterious, or something more recessive.
Since Gx was a starter you already knew x was NOT Mysterious (since it's retired), so you've learned NOTHING and wasted the breeding cycle if your goal was to expose x. At least, if your goal was to be sure you had an offspring which also hid x. You do have a fall-back, though, and that is, when Mx can mate with Gx (opposite gender) you can breed them and have the following possible outcomes: GG Gx Mx xx .. and there is your provable pure offspring.
If Gx is not a starter, and x is completely unknown (meaning it could be Guitar), there is a chance that you'll see GG GG GM Gx. In this case you don't even know if there is a Gx which could bred back to the Gx parent. You can try, but it's a crap shoot with the odds stacked heavily against you.
If your goal was to produce pure (the subject of this thread), and Gx is a starter, using GM is a good choice.
If you goal is to simply expose x, however, GM was a poor choice.
I was wondering about that. This is why we need breeding discussions. :-)
BTW, in your list of pairings above, don't you mean:
GG
Gx
MG (or GM if you're switching to put the dominant trait first)
Mx
