Additionally, if you have a 25% poss het, and its 50% poss het parent is proven het, then yours becomes 50% poss het.
(I try to use 'poss het' because saying '50% het' seems to create a lot of confusion for newbies).
Once an animal is proven to carry a gene, that's it. It's a het.
It either is, or is not, het for that trait. The percentages are just percentages of the odds that it will carry the gene. So, a 100% het is guaranteed to be a het--there is no chance that it isn't a het.
I'm looking forward to seeing a simple scale test or blood test that will reveal het status in ball pythons. Someone is bound to offer this in the future. Getting DNA tests done on cattle is cheap, so why not ball pythons?
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