!..Have a video with a Serious QUESTION..!

[ECechoHO]

http://vid1172.photobucket.com/album...psukgbmiot.mp4

Ok, video is about the snake NOT my apt, so NO dirty floor or why you watching Jerry Springer wise cracks(lol)..!! I was told i have bro and sis NORMS from people on here but the bottoms are almost identical but on the guy snake has a little black on the bottom around the exit area, i'll show him if needed, ALRIGHT question, Doesn't white bottoms mean they are some kind of HET for a morph..??

[ECechoHO]

and NO before anyone asks or says something, i WASN'T choking her...

[dr del]

Hi,

I watched that and no there is nothing that would make me think het anything. The het pied markers people talk about are a lot more pronounced than that in length and, to be honest are not 100% reliable anyway.

Sometimes they show up in particular lines more than others but nobody can be 100% sure they indicate het pied - if they really were pied would be called co-dom not recessive.

[ECechoHO]

another QUESTION, QUESTIONS GALORE, is PIED the only MORPH that has markers that people can see..?? it's always a pied someone talks about if/when i mention the bottoms being all white.. another one what are some other markers that can determine a morph.??

[ECechoHO]

5000 questions........ GO..

1. couldn't ANYTHING be HET or is it just PIEDS, like you couldn't have a het Mojave or some other kind of morph.?? LMAO well maybe not 5000..

[PhoenixGate]

check the sticky threads in Is this A Morph/What Morph is it? Seriously, it's just basic genetics and it just explains all the terminology there....

[BCS]

You should just ignore the whole "marker" thing all together. It is never a give away. I have hets that do not have markers and I have non hets that do have "markers". Just because they have a certain pattern does not mean they are het for something.

[AlexisFitzy]

5000 questions........ GO..

1. couldn't ANYTHING be HET or is it just PIEDS, like you couldn't have a het Mojave or some other kind of morph.?? LMAO well maybe not 5000..

Recessive genes are the only one that can have Hets. There are co-dominate genes, recessive, and dominate. A recessive gene only replicate themselves with the same recessive gene. For example: Het Pied x Het Pied = Visual Pieds

Or Pied x Pied = More awesome Pieds lol

So they will either have to be a visual of the recessive gene or a carrier of the gene to produce more visuals.

Try out this site and use the genetic wizard, it also has a nice section that explains genetics I hope all that stuff I said makes sense. I suck at explaining things sometimes

http://www.worldofballpythons.com

[ECechoHO]

THANKS, that site is an amazing genetic wizard site, i stay on there..!!lol<--- kinda..

[MarkS]

Het is short for heterozygous. That means that the paired alleles that make up a gene are different from each other. Homozygous means they are the same as each other. That's all that it means. Your snake looks normal. Whether or not it is heterozygous for a genetic mutation that affects the appearance is not possible to tell by just looking.