Super basic question about selection

I know this is a basic question, but if you selectively bred ball pythons for a certain trait, would it breed out eventually? For example, you have a ball python with dark banding by the eyes and you find another with this, would it e possible to breed out thick dark bands as a morph?


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Depends on if it is genetic or not. But assuming it is genetic I don't see why not.

You're talking about line breeding for polygenic traits. While the dark banding would become prominent in offspring and could indeed be called a breed able trait, it wouldn't become a "morph" in the true sense.

Selective breeding....

In nature we call that evolution.

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Originally Posted by Daigga

You're talking about line breeding for polygenic traits. While the dark banding would become prominent in offspring and could indeed be called a breed able trait, it wouldn't become a "morph" in the true sense.

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This is true. It would not necessarily be a morph. It would be a line bred trait.

Thank you :)


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lol they are all line-bred traits actually.

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Originally Posted by TessadasExotics

lol they are all line-bred traits actually.

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My 9th grade biology may be confused, but isn't a trait specific to one line? Like wouldn't they all have to be related to have the same exact trait? So wouldn't something like a silver surfer be a morph and not a trait because It is reproducible with different unrelated pairs of snakes? Sorry that that was written as a group of questions lol


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right, but the different traits within the appearance would be traceable making them line traits i think. also, you could theoretically have traits that dont start from the same trait but they would both have to mutate on their own, it would be rare but possible.