Quote Originally Posted by Cloudynight1017 View Post
This is how I explained het/recessive genes to my kids. It’s like having blue eyes. Blue eyes are a recessive gene. A person who has blue eyes has parents who both carry the gene (whether they themselves have blue eyes or not) My step daughter’s mother has blue eyes but my step daughter has brown eyes. Because her mom has blue eyes, my step daughter is “het” for blue eyes, as in she has the gene. I tell her someday if she wants to have a baby that has blue eyes the father needs to either have blue eyes or his parents need to have blue eyes. A het/recessive gene doesn’t show itself until there are 2 copies of it, meaning both parents carry that gene. With luck, some of the offspring will show the “visual” of the recessive gene. Just like with 2 blue eyed people (their children are going to have blue eyes) 2 visual recessive bps will produce all visual offspring. Albino for example (just because that’s one of my bps that has gone on to lays eggs this season) My albino girl (visual recessive) was paired with a ghi het albino. He is visually a ghi but is 100% a carrier for the albino gene. A visual to a 100% het makes your odds of getting a visual recessive 50%. I have a 50% chance of getting an albino morph (25% albino ghi and 25% albino...50% total). There are also different percentages of het also. If you were to breed a het to a het, all non visual offspring would be 66% het, meaning they are 2 3rds likely to be het (not a guarantee on any particular one if it is het or not since the gene isn’t presenting itself visually). 50% hets are a Het to a non visual or het. A het albino to a pastel let’s say. Those offspring are going to be 50/50 het. Some could be, others won’t be (depending on luck)


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Thank you for taking the time to write that detailed and helpful response. I really appreciate it !!