heterozygous

[Sacaa]

what is a heterozygous snake???

[Freakie_frog]

It is an animal that carries one half of the genes required to create a visual differance from the base gene.

[Patrick Long]

It is an animal that carries one half of the genes required to create a visual differance from the base gene.

Word!

[ctrlfreq]

It is an animal that carries one half of the genes required to create a visual differance from the base gene.

That's somewhat misleading, as heterozygous forms of dominant and co-dominant traits are both different from the base gene (and since a gene doesn't necessarily present itself in the phenotype).

A heterozygous animal is simply an animal that carries a single copy of a particular allele.

[soy.lor.n]

That's somewhat misleading, as heterozygous forms of dominant and co-dominant traits are both different from the base gene (and since a gene doesn't necessarily present itself in the phenotype).

A heterozygous animal is simply an animal that carries a single copy of a particular allele.

word!

[pythontricker]

this should help
http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_intro.html

[Sacaa]

this should help
http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_intro.html

[Louis Kirkland]

Defintion of heterozygous:

"Having two different alleles for a single trait."

[nevohraalnavnoj]

Defintion of heterozygous:

"Having two different alleles for a single trait."

True 'dat.

Here's a question. Say you produce a super pastel from a bell line cross a graziani line, which are compatible. Is this animal actually caring two different alleles (one bell, one graziani) for a single trait (pastel)? Or are the alleles the exact same? If the latter, wouldn't that mean different lines of pastel should be indistinguishable??

JonV

[elevatethis]

The pastel gene is the pastel gene and they are all the same so to say that the different lines are "compatible" is somewhat misleading.

What makes a line a "line" is through selective breeding and its all the other traits of that line of animals that make a lemon look different from a graziani or bell or whatever else.