Terminology

Ok I Have Been Looking At All Of These Breeder Sites And I Keep Seeing The Word Heterozygous Pop Up, I.e. Albino Hetero. What The Heck Does Hetero Mean? Does It Mean That They May Produce An Albino Or What?
Thank You!!!!
-adam And Tiger

Once again:

http://www.ball-pythons.net/modules...._content&eid=1

Flip through it a bit.


THe site search function works also - more concise when you chose advanced search:

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...searchid=14632

if two hets are bred you will get 1 albino 2 hets 1 normal. meening that they carry the albino gene but dont show it (its recessive) i dont know the science of it, but thats how it works

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Originally Posted by mr~python

if two hets are bred you will get 1 albino 2 hets 1 normal. meening that they carry the albino gene but dont show it (its recessive) i dont know the science of it, but thats how it works

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You COULD - those are the statistical norms. You could very well wind up with all normals. There are no guarantees on the spread.



http://www.ball-pythons.net/modules....warticle&id=35

another link - with a good link at the bottom too.

Any breeders who would like to help refine/update/validate these are more than welcome - all contributions of this sort are greatly appreciated!

i know, but thats how it works on a punnette square. sorry i forgot to add that part:P :oops:

If a snake is 100% heterozygous for albino (meaning they have the albino gene and the normal gene---for instance, say the albino gene is (A) and the normal gene is (a)... then a heterozygous would have (A)(a) genes)

Now, say you breed two 100% hets together... using the punit (sp?) square system, you come up with baby snakes that have these genes: (A)(A)---full albino and will exhibit the traits; (A)(a)---you'll get two of these, they'll be hets themselves but exhibit normal traits; and one (a)(a)---completely normal ball python.

Of course, these are just odds... meaning that breeding two 100% hets only gives you a 1 in 4 chance of getting an albino snake. And then you get into 66% hets and 50% hets... and that gets confusing!

Sorry for the bio lesson, but this stuff is pretty interesting to me...

http://www.ball-pythons.net/modules....warticle&id=35

Indeed - the NERD link at the bottom of that article will actually take you to their page which has some punnett squares diagrammed at the bottom.