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@buckabucka
It looks like you have what is called an OUTCROSS.
Let me try to explain what outcross and segregation mean:
Can you recall in any science class you had where they talked about GREGOR MENDEL and his Pea experiments that he did way back in the 1850's?
An outcross happens with Beans because of CROSSPOLLINATION done by bees, mostly bumblebees. (Bean flowers are extremely difficult for a human to crosspollinate. Just about takes a team of neurosurgeons to do it.) But some of the kinds of bees can when they get vigorous digging around in the bean flowers.
Let's say you are growing 2 kinds of beans near each other. A bee digs around in the flowers of one variety of your beans, picks up POLLEN from them, and then goes to your other bean patch with a different variety of beans, starts digging around in those flowers. That bee has the pollen all over it from the other kind of bean, and gets that pollen all over the STIGMA of your other beans.
(Stigma is the part of the bean that gets the pollen for fertilizing the seeds in the immature bean pod inside the flower.)
When this happens, the developing bean seeds grow with genes and DNA that are HALF the pollen parent, and HALF the seed parent.
Those seeds are HYBRIDS. Actually, F1 hybrid.
You'll find F1 hybrid tomatoes and corn in seed catalogs, and lots of other kinds, but you WILL NOT find F1 hybrid beans. Simply because it is so hard for humans to do, or even to control.
So, looks like with beans, when you get a hybrid, QUITE BY ACCIDENT, OR BY LUCK, it seems to be called an OUTCROSS.
So that's what an outcross is.
Now, SEGREGATIONS is a bit more complicated to describe, but there are shorter simpler ways to describe it.
This is where knowing about Mendel's experiments comes in handy. What mendel did was to discover segregation. Well, actually, likely some farmers and ranchers, probably for a couple thousand years, knew that something like segregation happens when this kind of cow is bred to that kind of bull, or this kind of cabbage grew next to that kind of collards, but Mendel did it all scientifically, and took many notes.
Mendel also made little graphs of what happens to specific traits as generations passed.
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Short version is,
WHEN YOU PLANT THESE F1 SEEDS, YOU GET F1 PLANTS.
MAINLY DOMINANT GENES SHOW UP.
RECESSIVE GENES ONLY SHOW UP IF BOTH PARENTS HAVE THEM.
IF ONE PARENT HAS A RECESSIVE GENE, AND THE OTHER PARENT HAS A DOMINANT GENE FOR THE SAME TRAIT, THE DOMINANT GENE SHOWS UP IN THE F1 PLANT.
Example for peas is crossing a tall growing pea with a short growing pea.
The tall gene is dominant.
The F1 pea of that cross will all be tall. Every one of them.
BUT!!!
LET THE F1 PLANT
SELF POLLINATE
AND VOYLA!
THE SEEDS YOU GET ARE CALLED F2.
F2 plants all have different combinations of genes.
3 quarters of them will be tall, and 1 quarter of them will be short.
BUTT, THERE'S MORE TO THIS!
(Groans from the back of the 8th grade science class can be heard from the kids that wanted to study making paper airplanes...)
Of the tall growing plants, 2 thirds of them CARRY the gene for short, and 1 third of them are pure tall, not carrying short genes... AND YOU CAN'T EVEN TELL WITHOUT GENETIC TESTING, until you grow the seeds they make.
SHORT VERSION:
Growing the F2 generation gets lots of SEGREGATIONS, the pants with different traits.
You also get SOME new segregations from the next few generations.
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Now, with beans, that is EXTRA cool! Because it is almost just about the only way to get new varieties.
Some personal discoveries we're making here is that...
(edited to fix up the next sentence)
F2 bean seeds that grow from F1 plants tend to have well colored or dark pinto patterning, and that is what you have
@buckabucka
Another thing...
I'd give you an arm and a leg for just 5 seeds of your true red cranberry, the pure looking kind,
and my other arm and leg for just 5 of your outcross true red cranberry seeds!
