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Re: Bamboo 1.0 bathtime!
Try this on for size to help you.
http://www.newenglandreptile.com/ind...dominant-genes
Co-Dominant or “CoDom” is the slang used in the world of reptile keepers for the correct genetic term Incomplete Dominance. This describes a “visual” heterozygous animal that is different looking from the “Normal” phenotype. In other words, the “het” looks different than a Normal, in contrast to Recessive morphs, where the “hets” do look Normal. A Pastel Jungle does NOT look like a Normal Ball Python, although it is only carrying one copy of the Pastel gene.
In a way, a Pastel Jungle can be thought of as “visual het” for Super Pastel. The heterozygous Incomplete Dominant animal can be thought of as half expressing the gene. In the snake world, the complete - homozygous - expression of an Incomplete Dominant gene is known as a “Super.” Put another way, the hets the look different from a Normal, but when bred back to another het and “doubled up,” they can produces an even more extreme version of themselves which we call the “Super form.” The visual effect that the gene has on the snake may be pattern, color or both.
In theory, when an Incomplete Dominant animal is bred to a Normal, the resulting clutch should consist of 50% snakes with the visual phenotype (Incomplete Dominant gene carriers) and 50% non-gene carrying, Normal snakes. (This is only statistics; sometimes, your luck is lousy and you can get all Normals!) If the gene is bred back to itself and fails to yield a more extreme version of itself, it is known as Dominant.
Last edited by Skyrivers; 09-27-2018 at 01:12 PM.
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