Genetic Brain Fart

[Kilo]

What would a Spider X Spider produce?

[Freakie_frog]

Spiders and normals.

[Kilo]

Ahh yes that's what I figured. Thanks!

[Mendel's Balls]

Ahh yes but what would the probabilities of getting a normal or spider be? That question is hard to answer with no proven homozygous spiders lying around.

[Kilo]

lol good question! I would think 50/50

[PythonWallace]

Ahh yes but what would the probabilities of getting a normal or spider be? That question is hard to answer with no proven homozygous spiders lying around.

75% spiders w/33% of them likely to be a Homozygous spider, if there is such thing. If one of the breeder spiders is homo., than 100% spiders, half of them also homo.

[PythonWallace]

I'm also suprised it hasn't been proven one way or the other yet. I'd like to breed for them if they are proven.

[elevatethis]

Hard to prove without a visual...you'd have to "prove" it by breeding it.

I'd say the odds of a heterozygous spider (don't get confused) throwing all spider babies over a sample size of 10-20 eggs would be very, VERY slim. Doing a statistical analysis, I think those numbers would fall into an acceptable level of certainty that an animal that produced like that could fairly be considered a homozygous spider.

Who knows though? I just know I like spiders....

[Mendel's Balls]

75% spiders w/33% of them likely to be a Homozygous spider, if there is such thing. If one of the breeder spiders is homo., than 100% spiders, half of them also homo.

That's the if that complicates the genetic math my friend. Hoever, as I said before...I do not beleive in the homozygous lethal idea anymore.

[RandyRemington]

Have you heard some indications that there is a homozygous spider? Certainly the lack of one doesn't prove anything but I’m wondering if some new evidence has leaked out.

The odds of a heterozygous spider X normal going 10 for 10 in it's first offspring all being spider is 1 in 1024. The odds of going 20 for 20 is 1 in 1,048,576.