heterozygous

what is a heterozygous snake???:confused:

It is an animal that carries one half of the genes required to create a visual differance from the base gene.

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

It is an animal that carries one half of the genes required to create a visual differance from the base gene.

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Word! :cool:

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

It is an animal that carries one half of the genes required to create a visual differance from the base gene.

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That's somewhat misleading, as heterozygous forms of dominant and co-dominant traits are both different from the base gene (and since a gene doesn't necessarily present itself in the phenotype).

A heterozygous animal is simply an animal that carries a single copy of a particular allele.

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Originally Posted by ctrlfreq

That's somewhat misleading, as heterozygous forms of dominant and co-dominant traits are both different from the base gene (and since a gene doesn't necessarily present itself in the phenotype).

A heterozygous animal is simply an animal that carries a single copy of a particular allele.

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word! :cool:

this should help
http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_intro.html

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Originally Posted by pythontricker

this should help
http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_intro.html

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Defintion of heterozygous:

"Having two different alleles for a single trait."

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Originally Posted by Louis Kirkland

Defintion of heterozygous:

"Having two different alleles for a single trait."

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True 'dat.

Here's a question. Say you produce a super pastel from a bell line cross a graziani line, which are compatible. Is this animal actually caring two different alleles (one bell, one graziani) for a single trait (pastel)? Or are the alleles the exact same? If the latter, wouldn't that mean different lines of pastel should be indistinguishable??

JonV

The pastel gene is the pastel gene and they are all the same so to say that the different lines are "compatible" is somewhat misleading.

What makes a line a "line" is through selective breeding and its all the other traits of that line of animals that make a lemon look different from a graziani or bell or whatever else.