solution for combining two text files missing different headers - windows

Question

I am running in a windows environment and have not used grep/awk/sed/shell; however, I would like to know what would be the simplest solution for the following issue:
I have two files (they both have headers):
Genetics File. The columns are Animal, Car, Color
Specimen File. The columns are Animal, Color
I would like to combine the two file into one file with all headers present; however, for the specimen file portion to have blank values for Car. The end product would be:
+----------+------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Animal | Car | Color | |
+----------+------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Elephant | Jeep | Grey | (from genetics file [don’t include this text in the resulting file) |
| Dog | Ford | Red | (from genetics file) |
| Cat | | Blue | (from specimen file) |
| Donkey | | Green | (from specimen file) |
+----------+------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
What would be the simplest solution in a windows environment?
edit: to clarify the reason for those tags is because i believe that those tools are the best suited for this job! I do not want to create a whole c# application just to do this.

Answer 1

The tools referred to in the question, sed, awk, grep, etc., are not native to Windows.
In order to use those them, you will have to make a choice:
Install a unix or linux on your computer, either native, or through virtualisation.
or:
Install a toolkit like Cygwin or UWIN
There's a lot of documentation out there for these projects, but there's a lot to learn, if you're new.
An easy way to get started with virtualisation is to get Oracle's Virtualbox, and a copy of ubuntu linux.

Answer 2

Is this what you want ?
$cat input.ani
|Elephant|Jeep|Grey|
$ cat input.Specimen
| Cat | Blue |
| Dog | White |
| Elephant | Red |
$ cat input.Specimen | awk '{print $1 $2 $3 " " $3 $4 $5 $6 }' >> input.ani
$ cat input.ani
|Elephant|Jeep|Grey|
|Cat| |Blue|
|Dog| |White|
|Elephant| |Red|

Answer 3

On second thought, for a simple solution, I would not recommend against the unix toolset, unless you really want to get learn the environment.
For a Windows system, you could just as well install a good scripting language like python, perl, or ruby.
None of those is trivial, but they have good support, and they have decent installers for windows.
Yet another alternative would be PowerShell, which again, is based on the .Net runtime.