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TheLastGherkin — Pony Mating Chart
Published: 2011-04-16 09:03:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 24371; Favourites: 266; Downloads: 306
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Ms. Faust said mix it up a little, and so I did. Actually I was going to make this before, but her comments sort of galvanised me and this is the result!I knocked this out in about half an hour in Word. It works basically like a giant Punnett square . The two inputs combine together to give the possible offspring listed. So if you've ever wanted to know what Twilight Sparkle and Big Macintosh's kids would look like, here you go! (Why did it take me ages to think up a heterosexual pairing?)
Anyone who corrects me is hereby proclaimed to be assigning too much science to a show about cute ponies.
Oh, and the irony of the family-friendly pony artist doing a chart about mating is not lost on me.
EDIT: Embiggenated for great justice and shippers everywhere!
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These are very interesting charts indeed, but I think the only way the Cakes could've had both a pegasus and a unicorn is if the earth allele is dominant over those for pegasi and unicorns (which could also explain why the earth pony population is the largest ).
...I would make a joke about Mrs. Cake not being so faithful, but that would only work if the foals weren't twins.
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Alicorns aren't natural except for Princess Celestia and Luna buts only because they are the daughters of Gods. Twilight and Cadance became alicorns when they earned the tittle of princess. But If Cadance and Shining ever decide they want a foal and it ends up being an Alicorn than that's something to be discussed.
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Looks like it's something to be discussed.
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I prefer the "evil twin", I think that Unicorns would be dominant over Earth, i makes more since to me to loose wins when mating then magic.
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Man... What if someone could Animate this? Turn it into a Flash thing like generalzoi's Pony Creator? THAT would certainly be a hit
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I am tempted to futz around now. Partly because of the growing number of MLP Tabletop games and partly in the name of a ship that's grown on me (Doctor Whooves/Ditzy Do (Derpy <3) )
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just to be a terrible terrible person: what about changelings and alicorns?
it's shown that not all royal ponies have both a horn and wings, some are just unicorns.
it also stands to reason that some changelings might have mated with ponies.
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With Changelings, I'd suppose their metamorphic magic could work on a molecular level (or something of that sort), so that the genes they'd pass on would depend on what kind they changed into - for example, a Changeling disguised as an Earth Pony would pass on Earth Pony(ish?) genes.
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(delayed response, sorry)
It appeared as though the changelings shape-shifting was more of an illusion than an actual transformation; their forms reverted just before or after they were hit, indicating it required concentration.
I love over-thinking things in cartoons.
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All I can see from this is that Mrs Cake wasn't fully honest to her husband regarding the unicorn and pegasus "mini cakes"
Both Mr and Mrs Cake would have to be bearers of both a latent unicorn and pegasus gene for things to add up.
Unless magic in equestria adds something to the science of biology...
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*tries to figure out**brain implodes**looks over again*
OOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!! The lineup of it confused me, but everything else makes sense ^^
Very well done
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It's possible that being an Earth Pony, Pegasus, or Unicorn works more like skin colour, where more than one pair of alleles determine the type of pony. For example, suppose there are three pairs of alleles and if two out of three of them says Earth Pony, then the pony's an Earth Pony. So... going by the deviantart above...
Eu/EE/Up = Earth Pony.
Up/Up/Pe = Unicorn.
Up/PP/Pe = Pegasus.
If there's an even split between all three pairs, however, then the pure pairs take priority: Eu/UU/Pe = Unicorn. If two out of three of them are pure pairs, then the recessive allele of the third pair determines the type: EE/UU/Pe = Earth Pony.
That leaves out EE/UU/PP and Eu/Up/Pe = Alicorn. There are 6x6x6=216 different combinations and assuming a completely even split, that means roughly 1 in 108 ponies is an Alicorn... which I suppose is rare enough? ~_^
Pound Cake = Pe/Pe/EE and Pumpkin Cake = Up/Up/EE.
Carrot Cake = Ep/Ue/EE and Cup Cake = Ue/Ep/EE.
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Scratch that, try this one for the Cup family instead:
Pound Cake = Pe/Pe/EE
Pumpkin Cake = Up/UU/EE
Carrot Cake = Eu/Eu/EE
Cup Cake = Pe/Up/EE
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MAN! I couldn't follow Genetic back in High School; and now you, here, now, again, with this...
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Twi = UU
FShy = Pe
PinkPi = Ep
AJ = EE
RD = PP
Rarity = Ue
As for alicorns, they were very powerful Up's who did an everlasting flight spell.
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SO...think this chart still stands after the recent episode?
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Yeah I think it does.
Mr Cake looks stressed as hell.
He pretty much says that there are traces of all three types of ponies in there family.
Just happened that they came out in both there kids.
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I personally wonder about the probability of that happening. Either way, poor Scoots being bested by a baby
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WOA!!! I remember doing this in biology, only we did it with rats.... ponies are much better!!! 8D Thanks for making this!
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Yes! I thought of this when I was in class. Awesome to see someone made it
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wait minute for example if you have a father that has have pure pegasus gene and the mother that is a pegasus with earth gene and have to ponies. the older brother has more of the mother's gene does that mean he'sa earth pony and the younger brother has pure pegasus gene due to the father's gene? i'm trying to undestand this it's a little bit confusing please help me out here
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so wait a minute if you have a male pure pegasus and a female pegasus with unicorn family in the past and have two males what breed will come out first and especially the younger brother?
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According to the second chart, there'd be a 50% chance for each individual child to be either a Pegasus with latent Unicorn genes, or a pure Pegasus.
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... There was a reason I'm no longer a Biology major...
On the other hand, it makes sense after a bit of study. Nice.
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Interesting.... interesting....
but what about Prince Blue Blood?
He's related to Celestia and Luna and so one of his ancestors must have been an alicorn so....
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Pu or Up - which are either Pegasus with latent unicorn genes or Unicorn with latent pegasus genes.
No alicorns as you can see.
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so wait if there was alicorns i would be one? weird O.o
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Maybe. Or we need some other factors to get an alicorn.
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Simple fix:
Either A: Alicorns are sterile.
*B: Alicorns bypass this completely and just pop out whatever no matter what they fuck.
or C: Alicorns can only breed with other Alicorns, so don't need this chart
*My preference
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Maybe Alicorns are Up/Pu, but with a special "AA" gene that has a 20% chance of replacing the result of any of the four combinations that would come from a normal Up/Pu pairing with an ordinary pony?
Could explain why Blueblood isn't an Alicorn, and yet is a distant nephew of the Princesses.
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You know what else explains that? Adoption.
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Based off Lauren Faust's comment on Blueblood's ancestry [link] , I'm assuming he's related to the Princesses by blood.
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Headcanon conflict! *headasplode*
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Alicorns were very powerful Up's who did an everlasting flight spell.
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what happends if you mix pure unicorn with a pegasus?
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