Cat Genetics for Writers & Artists part 2: Black, Chocolate, & Cinnamon [CC] 

What is your source on the brown coloration being a result of pheomelanin? I really don't think that's the case. There are chocolate silvers, it does not change with pheomelanin intensity & is more likely just a hue that eumelanin takes under certain genetic circumstances

Bringing back haunting memories of miserably failing biology modules (and by "miserably failing" I mean getting less than 80%)

Yay! May the algorithm be kind to you ^^

:) as someone who is super interested in genetics and grew up with warrior cats, this is super cool to me. Enjoying these videos!

I am SO excited for the rest of this :D super interesting !!

very informative b

Love these vids btw!!

Oooo more punnet squares. Mmm. 1. 25% Homozygous black. 25% Homozygous chocolate. 50% Black heterozygotes. 2. 25% Homozygous black. 50% Heterozygous black. 25% Homozygous cinnamon. 3. 25% Homozygous cinnamon. 25% Heterozygous Chocolate (bb¹). 25% Heterozygous Black (Bb) 25% Heterozygous Black (Bb¹)

I’m here both trying to figure out how to make one of my Warrior Cats OC’s realistic(Her name is Lightingdusk, her current design is a diluted yellow colour with sandy brown stripes, with black legs, ears, tail tip and snout, with a lighter black for her paws, and some lighter black on her snout too. As you can see unrealistic.) and figuring out what fur genetics my actual pet cat Millie has. She is a short hair spotted tabby I believe(Her stripes are hard to see but they are there and look more like spots than anything, but her legs have the proper tabby stripes on them), her paws to her elbows on her fronts legs, and all of her back legs and underside are white, so she has a lot of the white spotting gene(or whatever the other white gene is called), with some mild brown spotting on the bottom of her paws. Her cheeks, neck and snout are also white, while the bridge of her nose has a white smudge but mostly is the brownish greyish colour of the rest of her fur. She has greenish yellow eyes, a dark rusty nose with a sandy brown spot below her nose on the white. Millie has sandy brown eye markings too. Her fur is like a greyish brownish colour, don’t even know how to describe it and she has pink toe beans despite her nose being that rusty colour. Fairly certain her mom was a short hair calico with no white spotting, didn’t get a good look at her when I first got Millie in 2019(Before the quarantines hit.), but her remaining sister had a calico pelt with some minor white spotting(At least I think she had white spotting too). TLDR: I think Millie may be a short hair black or cinnamon spotted tabby, with the silver/smoke showing on her fur, and 0-50% white spotting. Edit: Added paragraphs so this isn’t a wall of text. Lol

Woo! Next video!

Wohoo! Very cool

is there any way a solid cat could appear both black and brown? (even if genetically theyre just black or just brown), ive seen a few pictures of black cats with a brown underside i think? and they dont appear to be colorpoints.

This is very nice.

Guys need help here what happen if female is lilac bb/dd male cinnamon b1b1 Dd kittens will be?

So does that mean SOMETIMES (rarely) there's a chance i can found a brown cat? :D