Quote Originally Posted by T&C Exotics View Post
"Het" means it is a recessive gene and the animal carries it but does not show it. So axanthic for example is recessive... It takes 2 copies of the axanthic gene to show but if the snake only has one it is then a het axanthic.
Quote Originally Posted by Archimedes View Post
Het is short for heterozygous. Het is the colloquial term for individuals that carry the gene for recessive traits.

(That is the most basic description, I am no genetics master, so if any bigger breeders would like to correct me, please do so!)
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Thank you both! Understood.


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