How Do 'Hets' Work?

:confused: I know it sounds like a noob question, but i am a noob ok, lol, and i dont really know how to explain myself, but, how do hets work? :weirdface i mean, a snake can only be het for 1 morph right..?.. please help my tiny brain understand.. give me some examples.. or use one of my future projects.. cheers :carouse:

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Originally Posted by adam_degel

:confused: I know it sounds like a noob question, but i am a noob ok, lol, and i dont really know how to explain myself, but, how do hets work? :weirdface i mean, a snake can only be het for 1 morph right..?.. please help my tiny brain understand.. give me some examples.. or use one of my future projects.. cheers :carouse:

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a snake can be het for as many genes as it parents has to pass on to it.

if you take a clown and breed it with an albino all the offspring will be double het for albino and clown, if you bred an hypo clown with a snow all the offspring would be quad het for hypo clown axantic and albino.

basicly just look at hets the same as you look at codoms. a pastel is basicly het for a super pastel, and if you breed a pastel to a normal you get 50% chance of having a pastel. same with that 100% het only thing is you can look and tell which is the het when you breed het to a normal. but same as when you breed pastel to pastel the odds of getting a super pastel are the same odds of getting a albino from breeding a 100% het albino to a 100% het albino.

when you get to the 50% hets it just means that a 100% het was bred to a normal so you can look and see if you hit the odds or not.

Think of DNA like a ladder split in half down the middle. Each morph is a rung on that ladder. When the rungs match up you get the homozygous form when they are miss matched you get the het version. The way the rung looks is the "phenotype" and the position of the rung on the ladder is the "Allele"

So a Lesser and a mojave are different phenotypes but since they are on the same position on the ladder you get a super..


Like this
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...examples/5.jpg

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

Think of DNA like a ladder split in half down the middle. Each morph is a rung on that ladder. When the rungs match up you get the homozygous form when they are miss matched you get the het version. The way the rung looks is the "phenotype" and the position of the rung on the ladder is the "Allele"

So a Lesser and a mojave are different phenotypes but since they are on the same position on the ladder you get a super..


Like this
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...examples/5.jpg

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well yea you can go and use pictures and stuff too take the easy way out ;P

Nice collection you got there for a noob. :gj:

May I recommend an upscale line of ghost or axanthic (VPI or the new black axanthic). Whether you pick a ghost or axanthic it can potentially do great things with any of your females.

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Originally Posted by 771subliminal

well yea you can go and use pictures and stuff too take the easy way out ;p

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In Big Gunns opinion "hets" are lousy "workers". When working together they usually only produce one of their kind. Big Gunns has found that homozygous animals are much harder workers. If you need any work done, get a homozy. When they "work" together they produce all of their kind. Even though, when two homozy's of different kinds work together, they produce nothing but lousy working double hets.

Double, triple(to infinity) "hets" are the worst "workers" of all, but they can give the biggest rewards.

BG hopes he's made it all clear for you. If not, listen to what everyone else said.:D

Here's a couple of links to get you started....

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...=626798#626798

http://www.ballpython.ca/what_get/recessive.html

Buy Homozygous males, and lots of het females. Het females are relatively inexpensive, and allow you to make homozygous animals. You won't feel obligated to pair them with anything other than a homozygous animal of the same type, so you'll wind up with plenty of homozygous animals to work with, to make combos down the road.