Different hets

[Jahbeard]

So, lets say you have a 100% het albino and a 100% het ghost (assuming different genders, of course). What would the visual offspring be, if anything at all? And would the non-visuals be 66% double het? Are they even compatable? Any help would be appeciated.

[Freakie_frog]

0% visual all would be double 50% het for albino and ghost.

[Snakeman]

so none of them would actually come out as albinos or ghosts?

[AzureN1ght]

so none of them would actually come out as albinos or ghosts?

You need 2 matching recessives to = a visual. 2 het albinos or 2 het ghosts or 2 albino-ghost hets would give you visuals. At least, that's how I understand it.

In high school did you ever do that blue eyes brown eyes thing? With the big B's for brown eyes and the little b's for blue eyes? Blue eyes are a recessive trait in humans, so both parents need to be visual (both having blue eyes) or recessive (both carrying the recessive blue gene) in order for the eyes to be blue. It's the same deal with recessive traits in snakes.

[Jahbeard]

0% visual all would be double 50% het for albino and ghost.

Not to be simple, but why only 50%. And can they carry 2 resessive genes at the same time?

[Freakie_frog]

Thats the percent chance that each animal with be carrying the gene. Because when only one copy of a gene is present in a parent some babies want inherit the trait.

[Snakeman]

In high school did you ever do that blue eyes brown eyes thing? With the big B's for brown eyes and the little b's for blue eyes? Blue eyes are a recessive trait in humans, so both parents need to be visual (both having blue eyes) or recessive (both carrying the recessive blue gene) in order for the eyes to be blue. It's the same deal with recessive traits in snakes.

the punnett square? yeah, that was nearly 3 years ago but i remember.

[Evan Jamison]

Not to be simple, but why only 50%.

Each parent will pass on either the normal gene or the mutant gene for the trait in which they are a carrier (het). Each offspring has a 50% chance of inheriting the albino gene from the het albino parent, and a 50% chance of inheriting the hypo gene from the het hypo parent.

66%'ers come from breeding two hets of the same trait. Each of the non-visual offspring have a 2/3 chance of being a het from this pairing.

-Evan

[Evan Jamison]

...And can they carry 2 resessive genes at the same time?

Yes, each offspring would have a 25% chance of being carriers for BOTH recessive genes.

-Evan

[Snakeman]

Each of the non-visual offspring have a 2/3 chance of being a het from this pairing.

so there would be a 1/3 chance of actually getting the desired morph for each baby?