Het vs homo?

[kanarybird]

How can you tell the difference between Het and Homo, is it only through breeding?

[Freakie_frog]

Het looks normal Homo is a morph.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

For example

Pied http://www.newenglandreptile.com/ner...pied/pied7.jpg

Het Pied http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...ully022608.jpg

[muddoc]

Het looks normal Homo is a morph.

So you mean that my Het Ivory is supposed to look normal. Dang I want my money back. LOL. I am just busting Ed's chops. Let us not forget that Heterozygous does not mean normal looking (unless you are refering to a Recessive trait). A Spider is a Heterozygous animal, because it does not have a pair of alleles.

[m0esgirl]

Let us not forget that Heterozygous does not mean normal looking (unless you are refering to a Recessive trait). A Spider is a Heterozygous animal, because it does not have a pair of alleles.

well this conversation just took a turn towards too-smart-for-me town. followed by I-learned-about-all-this-in-high-school-biology-so-why-cant-i-remember-any-of-it, and ending with my-kids-had-better-be-smart-because-i-seem-to-have-given-them-all-my-brain-cells-in-utero. enjoy your vacation!

[Mindibun]

Muddoc, your yellowbelly DOES look like a normal. Ask any newbie. So there, you have no idea what you're talking about.



(Totally in jest. )

[muddoc]

All I can say is that those two last posts made my laugh and fall out of my chair while spewing coffee from my nose. Thanks for the laughs.

[Freakie_frog]

So you mean that my Het Ivory is supposed to look normal. Dang I want my money back. LOL. I am just busting Ed's chops. Let us not forget that Heterozygous does not mean normal looking (unless you are refering to a Recessive trait). A Spider is a Heterozygous animal, because it does not have a pair of alleles.

Bla BLA BLA..

Go get all technical no me trying to keep it simple..

But yes Tim is right a het in genetic terms can be a morph.

[hoo-t]

So you mean that my Het Ivory is supposed to look normal. Dang I want my money back. LOL. I am just busting Ed's chops. Let us not forget that Heterozygous does not mean normal looking (unless you are refering to a Recessive trait). A Spider is a Heterozygous animal, because it does not have a pair of alleles.

Unless of course it is a homozygous spider! I know, I know, that hasn't been proven, but until it is one way or another we have to be open to the possibility right?

I wonder if the op meant to ask how to tell the difference between a het and a normal??? If so, with recessive traits, its only through breeding. With codominant and dominant, there are visual differences, which is what Tim was saying. Spider is assumed to be a dominant trait, and thus far, no homozygous spiders have been proven. So, it is sometimes assumed that homozygous spiders don't exist.

Steve

[stangs13]

The difference for me between hets and homos is no groceries for a week or no groceries for a month...