Re: RC: Re: Re: Amblin/Racking/what ever

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 02:46 PM 6/22/00 -0400, T wrote:
> The passing of genetic information is a
> discrete process not  a continuum.
> That is a half Arab has half it's genes from an Arab. If he is bred to a
> non
> Arab then the Arab contribution is 1/4. Ten generations later with
> breeding to
> nonArabs, the Arab content is 1 in 1024 and twenty generations it would
> be 1 in
> over a million

Course that's assuming that absolutely none of any of the other horses
that were doing all this breeding had a speck of Arab blood in them
either, just that very first one -  would have to be either the Adam
or the Eve of all light horses.  Otherwise your example doesn't
work.  Lif

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