Best and easiest to learn and identify ball python genetics?

[FossilFreak]

I'm a guy in my late teens and Im hoping to breed balls when I move out of my parents house (either before, after or during going to school for paleontology). I've watched some videos on youtube about the genetics (ball python genetics101) but the producer takes up to a year to upload the next part of the series.

Are there any resources that can tell me as much as one should know about their genetics/ how to breed them that are *fairly* easy to understand and are a good read?

[butterballpython]

If you go to the main forum page you'll see sections on recessive and dominant morphs. That may be of some help to you, but as for me, there are some morphs where I'm struggling to figure out what makes them different from normals or other morphs.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Once you understand the basics of co-dom, dominant and recessive and how they work all you need to know is what morph is what starting with your basic single genes

Start here with your basic understanding of genetics http://ballpython.ca/genetics-101/

And here with all the morphs http://www.worldofballpythons.com


Once you have that down than it's up to the rest, double, triple etc

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[paulh]

Hi, FossilFreak. Welcome!

Genetics can be complicated. It all depends on how deep you want to go. Shallow--try a guide I whipped up a while ago. http://www.redtailboas.com/f115/no-f...s-guide-53782/ For what it's worth, I've had a university course in genetics and worked in the university genetics lab where the pros pounded the basics into my head. The basics are pretty much the same for ball pythons, humans, fruit flies, corn, etc.

If you are willing to lay out some money, Schaum's Introduction to Genetics https://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outli...on+to+genetics or Genetics for Herpers https://www.amazon.com/Genetics-Herp.../dp/B000ZJVXPM are good.

Here is a good web site--http://www.ballpython.com/index.php?page=genetically The ballpython.ca web site has already been mentioned. It's reliable, but I think it gets a bit deep into the jargon without defining the words.

A lot of herper genetics web sites are more or less inaccurate when trying to explain genetics, particularly the physical structure of DNA and genes. Unfortunately, that includes the basic genetics sticky on this forum. If you want to check into that, try the genetics home reference--https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer#basics

I took a look at the first installment of the ball python genetics 101 series on YouTube. IMO it would have been better with some pictures showing just what he meant by a super and some other things.