At what likelihood would you give up trying to prove out a possible het?
So, lets say you have a possible het recessive gene snake and you breed it to another het recessive or visual snake of the same morph. At what likelihood would you give up on the snake being het for the recessive gene?
As a comparison here is the likelihood you do not produce a visual with a het x het pairing
1 offspring 75% likelihood to not produce a visual
2 offspring 56.2% likelihood to not produce a visual
3 offspring 42.2% likelihood to not produce a visual
4 offspring 31.6% likelihood to not produce a visual
5 offspring 23.7% likelihood to not produce a visual
6 offspring 17.8% likelihood to not produce a visual
7 offspring 13.3% likelihood to not produce a visual
8 offspring 10% likelihood to not produce a visual
9 offspring 7.5% likelihood to not produce a visual
10 offspring 5.6% likelihood to not produce a visual
11 offspring 4.2% likelihood to not produce a visual
12 offspring 3.2% likelihood to not produce a visual
13 offspring 2.4% likelihood to not produce a visual
14 offspring 1.8% likelihood to not produce a visual
15 offspring 1.3% likelihood to not produce a visual
16 offspring 1.0% likelihood to not produce a visual
17 offspring 0.75% likelihood to not produce a visual
18 offspring 0.56% likelihood to not produce a visual
19 offspring 0.42% likelihood to not produce a visual
20 offspring 0.32% likelihood to not produce a visual
21 offspring 0.24% likelihood to not produce a visual
22 offspring 0.18% likelihood to not produce a visual
23 offspring 0.13% likelihood to not produce a visual
24 offspring 0.10% likelihood to not produce a visual
When breeding a het to a visual to prove it out the likelihoods are as follows
1 offspring 50% likelihood to not produce a visual
2 offspring 25% likelihood to not produce a visual
3 offspring 12.5% likelihood to not produce a visual
4 offspring 6.2% likelihood to not produce a visual
5 offspring 3.1% likelihood to not produce a visual
6 offspring 1.6% likelihood to not produce a visual
7 offspring 0.78% likelihood to not produce a visual
8 offspring 0.39% likelihood to not produce a visual
9 offspring 0.2% likelihood to not produce a visual
10 offspring 0.1% likelihood to not produce a visual