Cold be possible to have a banana Mojave female, if the father is a banana male maker?
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Probably no because it is a male maker
Thanks. My doubt is if the male maker works only for the gene banana or also for the combo with banana… Like my banana mojave
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Anything with banana in it will be a male anything without banana will be female
There is a very tiny percent chance for it to be female. I’ve seen a few times where someone will have a male maker and end up with 1 female after only getting males from that Banana for years and years.
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There’s like a 5% chance of getting a female.
Infact a breeder I know had a banana, male maker and got a few girls over a couple years. Bloody lucky!!
Then he got a female banana to pair them up for supers.
But there is a very small chance of getting a female! If my male banana ever produces a female she’d have to stay! 
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It happens, but like @ghoulishcresties says, not often. I’ve been breeding the CG/Banana gene for 5 years and just hit my first female last week. A friend of mine who’s been working with the gene the same amount of time has hit 3 females out of male makers.
In a normal Male Maker clutch, everything in my hand that’s banana/CG would be male, everything that isn’t banana would be female. That holds true for the picture below except the bottom left happens to be a female.
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Thaks guys for all reply. In the end of the day. If I have a banana male maker every combo with it will be a male(not for 100%of course). Right?
The banana gene is sex linked. In the case of a male maker like yours, it is on the y gene. Since the banana gene is a dominant, only one copy is needed to express visually. In the case if a male maker, since it’s on the y gene, any visual banana babies are male. X from mommy, since she’s xx, and y from daddy’s xy, means boys are xy and carry the banana.
It won’t affect any other genes inheritance, so your Mojave gene has to be considered separately.
For a female maker, the banana is on the x gene, so visual banana babies will be female. X from mommy, because females are xx so they only give x, and x from daddy.
Now, all that goes out the window every once in awhile because Mother Nature likes to mix things up occasionally. When the sperm and egg cells are being made, the genes will, sometimes, “jump around.” Usually they won’t move too much, but they will change chromosome. Like moving from the x to the y, or vice versa. This is just one of the processes that gives us genetic diversity. It isn’t too common, but it happens enough that we see it in specific cases where the gene that “jumps” is easy to identify, like banana.
All that means to us as breeders, is that you still have to check the baby’s sex, because as said earlier, there is about a 5% chance that the gene jumped. It’s actually pretty cool when you think about it.
For your Mojave gene, in a pairing where it’s only present as one copy in one parent, you have about a 50% for any given baby to be Mojave. I say “about” because that’s the math, in reality Mother Nature tends to “favor” some genes, so their inheritance rates are abit better.
@t_h_wyman I know I simplified, and probably got some if this wrong. Personally, I would love to hear the advanced version, especially concerning how often genes do get shuffled during meiosis, and genetic conservation. Please let me know if I got anything egregiously wrong here.
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Short version, yes, mostly, you will still have to check, but it’s a solid bet.
Nope, nothing egregious here, you sum it up very well.
The only thing I would correct is that the genes do not “jump”, it is just an artifact of the very normal process of cross-over resortment that happens during meiosis. I could probably do a write up but I am sure there are good websites that discuss it if you hit Lord Google