Breeding Odds

[pastelballs]

So I was wondering if there was a place that you could go to input genes (Say, super fire x pastel het red) and it would tell the possible outcomes? I'm not very familiar with how it all works, recessive vs dominant and how it all mixes and stuff.

Also, what happens when you breed two supers together? Do things get weird, or just produces all supers?

If you bred a 4gene to a 4gene, it has the potential to throw out a lot of different things, right?

And how do normals come out of non-normal pairings?

[Yodawagon]

World of ball pythons has a calculator.

[Galaxygirl]

I recommend Owal. http://www.owalreptiles.com/genetics.php

World of Ball Pythons calculator is clunky and much harder to use imo

[pastelballs]

There isn't a Red Axanthic option on there?

If I bred the two I have now (in my signature), could they still end up with normals, or since it's pastel to pastel (with the red and het red) would they end up with all at least pastel (and het red???)

[paulh]

So I was wondering if there was a place that you could go to input genes (Say, super fire x pastel het red) and it would tell the possible outcomes? I'm not very familiar with how it all works, recessive vs dominant and how it all mixes and stuff.

Also, what happens when you breed two supers together? Do things get weird, or just produces all supers?

If you bred a 4gene to a 4gene, it has the potential to throw out a lot of different things, right?

And how do normals come out of non-normal pairings?

Here are a couple of references that may help with genetics.
http://www.redtailboas.com/f115/no-f...s-guide-53782/
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook

Either things get weird or they just produce all supers. It depends on whether both snakes are the same type of super (progeny are all supers) or whether the two snakes are different supers (things get weird).

Progeny of a 4 gene pair genetics problem can throw out a lot of different things.

A pastel ball python has a pastel gene paired with a normal gene. Each parent contributes one gene from each gene pair to each baby. Pastel mated to pastel is expected to produce
1/4 two pastel genes (super pastel ball python)
2/4 pastel gene and normal gene (pastel ball python)
1/4 two normal genes (normal ball python)

Clear as mud?