Het vs homo?

How can you tell the difference between Het and Homo, is it only through breeding?

Het looks normal Homo is a morph.

For example

Pied http://www.newenglandreptile.com/ner...pied/pied7.jpg

Het Pied http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...ully022608.jpg

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

Het looks normal Homo is a morph.

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So you mean that my Het Ivory is supposed to look normal. Dang I want my money back. LOL. I am just busting Ed's chops. Let us not forget that Heterozygous does not mean normal looking (unless you are refering to a Recessive trait). A Spider is a Heterozygous animal, because it does not have a pair of alleles.

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Originally Posted by muddoc

Let us not forget that Heterozygous does not mean normal looking (unless you are refering to a Recessive trait). A Spider is a Heterozygous animal, because it does not have a pair of alleles.

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well this conversation just took a turn towards too-smart-for-me town. followed by I-learned-about-all-this-in-high-school-biology-so-why-cant-i-remember-any-of-it, and ending with my-kids-had-better-be-smart-because-i-seem-to-have-given-them-all-my-brain-cells-in-utero. enjoy your vacation!:rolleye2:

Muddoc, your yellowbelly DOES look like a normal. Ask any newbie. So there, you have no idea what you're talking about.



(Totally in jest. :cool:)

All I can say is that those two last posts made my laugh and fall out of my chair while spewing coffee from my nose. Thanks for the laughs.

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Originally Posted by muddoc

So you mean that my Het Ivory is supposed to look normal. Dang I want my money back. LOL. I am just busting Ed's chops. Let us not forget that Heterozygous does not mean normal looking (unless you are refering to a Recessive trait). A Spider is a Heterozygous animal, because it does not have a pair of alleles.

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Bla BLA BLA.. :cool:

Go get all technical no me trying to keep it simple..

But yes Tim is right a het in genetic terms can be a morph.

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Originally Posted by muddoc

So you mean that my Het Ivory is supposed to look normal. Dang I want my money back. LOL. I am just busting Ed's chops. Let us not forget that Heterozygous does not mean normal looking (unless you are refering to a Recessive trait). A Spider is a Heterozygous animal, because it does not have a pair of alleles.

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Unless of course it is a homozygous spider! I know, I know, that hasn't been proven, but until it is one way or another we have to be open to the possibility right?

I wonder if the op meant to ask how to tell the difference between a het and a normal??? If so, with recessive traits, its only through breeding. With codominant and dominant, there are visual differences, which is what Tim was saying. Spider is assumed to be a dominant trait, and thus far, no homozygous spiders have been proven. So, it is sometimes assumed that homozygous spiders don't exist.

Steve

The difference for me between hets and homos is no groceries for a week or no groceries for a month..:rofl:.