Can I get anything with Het spider???

[alilshadee]

I need some help!! I was looking on the Markus Jayne website and just got a little confused so I was hoping somoene on here would be able to tell me something.

Right now I have normal male and I was looking to get a female to breed him with. I was wondering if I got a normal looking female that was a Het for spider if I would get any spiders? Or would I just get hets and normals??

[ollie]

hello

right i dont think you can get a het for spider because they are a dominant morph ( i think its dominant anyway i could be wrong ) but im sure you cant get het for spider , im still new at this so i might not be 100% correct

[MATT FISHER REPTILES]

nope it is a spider or not no hets.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I need some help!! I was looking on the Markus Jayne website and just got a little confused so I was hoping somoene on here would be able to tell me something.

Right now I have normal male and I was looking to get a female to breed him with. I was wondering if I got a normal looking female that was a Het for spider if I would get any spiders? Or would I just get hets and normals??

There is no such a thing as a normal looking female het for Spider, Spider is a dominant gene.

Only an individual that is heterozygous for a recessive gene look normal.

Now if you breed your male to a Female Spider you will get 50% Spider and 50% Normals.

[alilshadee]

Thanks all!! I just got confused b/c on the website they were calling the spiders hets and then they had a super spider and called it the homozygus.

(I slept thru Biology in highschool)

[Mendel's Balls]

For any dominant trait, you only need one copy of the gene for it to express itself in the appearance of the organism. In other words, a snake heterozygous for the spider allele (Ss) will appear as a Spider Ball Python.

Another way to think of this is, unlike recessive traits, there are no hidden carriers of dominant or co-dominant traits. If someone is trying to sell you a ball python that is het for Spider, but doesn't itself appear to be a Spider bp, then it is a scam.

[alilshadee]

Another genetic question then. Just to make sure I am getting things straight, if I have a het male and het female ghost, is there a possability that I will get a ghost????

[panthercz]

Another genetic question then. Just to make sure I am getting things straight, if I have a het male and het female ghost, is there a possability that I will get a ghost????

Yes. I believe it would be a 1 out of 4 chance of getting a homozygous.
Someone feel more than free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[wolfy-hound]

True. Ghost is recessive, so a het to het breeding you get 1 out of 4 coming out as a ghost. If the egg gods smile upon you of course.
Wolfy

[Mendel's Balls]

Yes. I believe it would be a 1 out of 4 chance of getting a homozygous.
Someone feel more than free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes that's correct for the most part.....just remember that's a 1 out of 4 chance for each egg. Probability is a theoretical value. It doesn't mean that you'll get 1 hypo if your females lays 4 eggs. With small sample sizes, actual frequencies and theoretical frequencies differ a lot.

Think of it this way if you flip a coin 10 times, probabilities tell you can expect 5 heads, 5 tails. But often you get something very different--like 8 heads and 2 tails. Only if you flip a coin many times (100, 1,000, 10,000 times) do the probabilities and actual frequencies begin to converge. This is called the law of large numbers.