The Ultimate Sims Genetics Tutorial! Chapter 1

[rikkulidea]

Ambitious title, huh? Well, this is an ambitious tutorial. Basically, I'm going to be compiling all the information I've absorbed by obsessively reading and observing. (A lot of the basics, when it comes to the in-game number crunchy stuff, comes from various threads at MATY and MTS2.) I hope to explain how sims genetics works, what options you

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[jilybeanrb]

Omg yes! I can't wait to read this! But first i had to comment that i did an experiment yesterday (pen and paper) on the tongue roller/non roller thing and it just kind of freaked me out (: Except in my book it was on Dihybrid crosses and it also added in about whether or not you can taste a certain thing.. But yep I'm gonna stop commenting now and actually print this out and read it (Will have to do later though.. doing school haha. Homeschool. Fun.)

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[rikkulidea]

I use tongue rolling all the time as an example because my father can't roll his tongue, but my sister and I can, so I know our genotypes. XD

Dihybrid crosses are fun to freak out students with, and kinda fun to work out...but are probably largely unnecessary. Unless two traits are linked, there usually isn't a reason to cross them at the same time. (I don't think tasters and tongue-rolling is that closely related, despite both having to do with your tongue.)

Don't get overly excited, screenshotting SimPE is so tedious as I'm writing the rest, so it may be a little while. :P

I hope the graphics print out decently. I was picking the right size for web resolution, not thinking about a good print size.

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[jilybeanrb]

Oh yes they printed out quite nicely! Haha and yeah i can definitely see what you mean about the dihybrid crosses, but it sure does look impressive lol.

Ah that's awesome! And see i can't roll my tongue so i guess that makes me all special and recessive lol.

And i read the rest of it and now i know how to do the probability and such for hair/eye color cause my book didn't cover there being more than two traits (I have no idea why) (well actually it was probably because human genetics are, as you said, far more complex that sim genetics) so i was just assuming how it worked, though i was right so yay me (:

[kingmike1224]

Thank You SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! This will definitely be handy for me *bows to your sim knowledge* *hugs a billion times* THANK YOU!!!

[strange_tomato]

Thank you for posting this. I've added it to my memories.

Thanks!

[ezplorer]

This is one of the best tutorials that I found