Genetic question

[paulh]

Play around here http://www.worldofballpythons.com/wizard/

A little more studying is going to needed to understand the whys.

Recessive, Co-Dominant, Dominate all express themselves differently.

The terms super, als, and 'het' also need to be understood.

A mystic potion is an ALS of the co-doms mystic and mojave. An als is basically two different genes that reside as a pair on the same allele.

For the meanings of recessive, codominant and dominant (dominate is a misspelling), see https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...bones+genetics

Also see that link for the meanings of homozygous, heterozygous, mutant and normal.

Super = has a gene pair made up of two copies (homozygous) of a codominant mutant gene. Example: a super mojave ball python has a gene pair made up of two mojave mutant genes. A super mojave is one of the blue eyed leucistic ball pythons. A super mojave does not look like a normal ball python or a mojave ball python.

als (AKA acts like super) = a gene pair made up of two different codominant mutant alleles. (There is no such term in standard genetics.)

het = short for heterozygous.

Alleles are different genes that can form a gene pair. See my previous post in this thread.