Pony colors

[lyrabrony 6]

I realized not so long ago but how ponies get the colors of their mane and coat? I f you think genetics then I have a question, what about the colors of purple, red, E.t.c?

[~Starlight~ 764]

I think it may have something to do with there talents and cutie marks, but my OC has nothing to do with hers and Lyra does not either. I am not that sure but it is nice to have a range of different colours.

[Fire Storm 2]

I think it is genetic...
If you see ponies in mlp as carbon based life forms just as here on earth, than it would be possible form them to use DNA to get different hair colors just like here on earth using dominant genes and all that (I could go on about it, but since I know more about body cels than hair, I can't give you a definite awnser)

[~Chaotic Fireball~ 499]

Rainbow Dash's dad's mane: Rainbow

therefore RD's mane: Rainbow

 

Twilight's mom's color: purple

Twilight's dad's mane : that dark purplish color

therefore twalot: purple + dark purplish color mane

 

And so on and so on.

For the Apple family, they just have to be one of the colors on the 'warm' side of the color wheel, and they're good to go.

 

However, although each pony will have one or more traits of their family, they themselves will have their own unique traits.

 

My recent drawings even show you somewhat of what the Mane 6's kids would look like; I gave them some traits of both parents, so maybe that's how the Mane 6's colors got to be as well.

http://mlpforums.com/topic/56004-the-next-generation-of-the-mane-6/?hl=the+future+generation+of+the+mane#entry1337485

 

Yeah, that's just my interpretation of it...

 

Ouch, my brain isn't used to thinking logically at this early in the morning!

Edited April 7, 2013 by ~Chaotic Fireball~

[Silverhoof 2,844]

Understand genetic information is never lost. It may skip a few generations but it could pop back up in a young-un unexpectedly.

 

Remember the twins born to the Cakes? Two earth ponies gave birth to a pegasus and a unicorn. Both were part of a previous family history. Genetic traits will sometimes act like that. Some traits are recessive, some are dominant--its luck of the draw in Ponyville.

 

Ponies have such variation as to coloring, that there will be generations of colors for a new life to draw upon.

[silvadel 1,393]

Understand genetic information is never lost. It may skip a few generations but it could pop back up in a young-un unexpectedly.

 

Remember the twins born to the Cakes? Two earth ponies gave birth to a pegasus and a unicorn. Both were part of a previous family history. Genetic traits will sometimes act like that. Some traits are recessive, some are dominant--its luck of the draw in Ponyville.

 

Ponies have such variation as to coloring, that there will be generations of colors for a new life to draw upon.

 

While I could see two earth ponies having a unicorn or pegasus foal, I can't see them having both.  Sorry Mr. Cake but your wife hasn't been true to you.

[Fire Storm 2]

 

While I could see two earth ponies having a unicorn or pegasus foal, I can't see them having both. Sorry Mr. Cake but your wife hasn't been true to you.

 

the chance of a unicorn and a pegasus foal may not be big, but it still has the possibility of it happening!
I have looked at some off my old biology notes and asumed the easyest to use contitions, with the notes I calculated that there is a chance of 1 in 64 that there would be a pegasus and unicorn foal.
(these notes are a bit old and genetic reasersch has advanced the last years, so there are other conditions with lower and maybe even higher chances)

[silvadel 1,393]

the chance of a unicorn and a pegasus foal may not be big, but it still has the possibility of it happening!

I have looked at some off my old biology notes and asumed the easyest to use contitions, with the notes I calculated that there is a chance of 1 in 64 that there would be a pegasus and unicorn foal.

(these notes are a bit old and genetic reasersch has advanced the last years, so there are other conditions with lower and maybe even higher chances)

 

It isn't an either or.  It is a both that is the problem.  You could very easily have earth ponies who both shared a recessive allele for pegasus or unicorn.  The problem is that you got both a pegasus and a unicorn from a pairing of earth ponies. 

[Planty 1,053]

Understand genetic information is never lost. It may skip a few generations but it could pop back up in a young-un unexpectedly.

 

Remember the twins born to the Cakes? Two earth ponies gave birth to a pegasus and a unicorn. Both were part of a previous family history. Genetic traits will sometimes act like that. Some traits are recessive, some are dominant--its luck of the draw in Ponyville.

 

Ponies have such variation as to coloring, that there will be generations of colors for a new life to draw upon.

 

Do you think that the color's are very specific or that you could get a mixing of the 2 colors to create a new one?

 

Or moreover; is there an infinite amount of color's a pony can be or not?

[Silverhoof 2,844]

Do you think that the color's are very specific or that you could get a mixing of the 2 colors to create a new one?

 

Or moreover; is there an infinite amount of color's a pony can be or not?

There was a monk in ancient Europe who discovered genetics. He mixed a plant that grew red flowers with the same that had white flowers...the result? a plant with pink flowers. Colors mix.

 

There is not an infinite amount of colors in the pony palate...but given a 1000 year history of mixed breeding anything is possible.

In fact I think the racial mix of ponies will result in a single race of alicorns in time.

 

Geneticists have grown teeth, tails, and arms in chicken embryos...if dinosaur traits are still there after 65 million years, all sorts of genetic information can be stored

Edited April 7, 2013 by Silverhoof

[Planty 1,053]

There was a monk in ancient Europe who discovered genetics. He mixed a plant that grew red flowers with the same that had white flowers...the result? a plant with pink flowers. Colors mix.

 

There is not an infinite amount of colors in the pony palate...but given a 1000 year history of mixed breeding anything is possible.

In fact I think the racial mix of ponies will result in a single race of alicorns in time.

 

Geneticists have grown teeth, tails, and arms in chicken embryos...if dinosaur traits are still there after 65 million years, all sorts of genetic information can be stored

Just out of interest, so do you lose some genetic material when gene pools are mixed?

 

I pretty sure that the amount of genetic material that can be contained in a single cell is limited so wouldn't you expect the loss of some?

[Silverhoof 2,844]

Both father and mother contribute 50% of their genetic blueprint to make a new whole. But even then they are passing on genetic information from entire lines of humanity. If dinosaur traits still exist in chickens, then we carry a long line of genetic information we are no longer using.

 

Recessive genes can be carried without showing for a few generations. If great grandpa was a werewolf, you might express lycanthropy as well, even though your father and his father thought the curse was over.

 

It is possible to lose genetic information. Natural blondes are said to be dying out. With so many fake blondes out there in the gene pool, there is nothing special about the natural blondes-they are no longer moving to the front of the breeding population.

---Beauty salons are affecting human evolution. Who'da thunk it?

 

BTW, I'm no egghead. This is from years of watching Discovery channel and Animal Planet.

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[lyrabrony 6]

So yeah now that I think about it, it is probably genetics because silverhoof showed the relationship of this and when the cake twins were born.

[FruitRiver 355]

Pony colors have nothing to do with genetics. Lauren got part of their designs from older ponies and just tried to make their colors look nice. I seriously doubt she sat down and thought "Applejacks mother is red and her father is yellow so she'll be orange."

[Scootalove 10,689]

I think it has something to do with genetic traits or how, the artists of the show decided to draw and design the ponies that certain color. Sometimes the color comes from genetics or just mixed coloring.

[Sugar Cube 4,843]

Interestingly, the Apple family children all share the same three colors. Applejack has an orange coat, and Big Mac has an orange mane and tail. Big Mac has a red coat, and Apple Bloom has a red mane and tail. Apple Bloom has a yellow coat, and Applejack has a yellow mane and tail.

 

So I think it's safe to assume that Applejack's parents had a lot of orange, red, and yellow.

[Love*Potion 575]

 

 

And so on and so on. For the Apple family, they just have to be one of the colors on the 'warm' side of the color wheel, and they're good to go.  

 

I just wanted to let you know that green (Granny Smith) is not considered a "warm color", but I know your point.

 

Anyways, I think most of you are over-thinking this. Why is Fluttershy yellow? Because she is soft and gentle. Why is Rainbow Dash blue? Probably because it went the best with her rainbow mane. I'm pretty sure the designers chose the colors for the ponies to match what they thought looked the best for that particular character. 

 

Plus, pony genetics are odd anyway, how does a unicorn give birth to an earth pony or something of the sort? (And remember these are fictional characters so they can look/do whatever they want)