want to know what the acronyms are?

[Kustom]

helpful

[carpy100]

the whole 'het' thing has twisted me melon man!

[SneakySnake]

Good acronyms mate

[rorykc]

Hi, Im very new to this and wondered (In a very embarrassed manner) what pm meant?

Cheers

[carpy]

pm means private message - on the top right of your screen where it says your username and your last visit it also says "personal messages" - that is your PM inbox - its probably best described as an internal email that users of this site can contact each other with

[rorykc]

Muchly appreciated dude, cheers.

[carpy]

no worries buddy

[SneakySnake]

What does rub mean?

[Skyespirit86]

really useful box- a popular brand of tub people use

[Skyespirit86]

Originally Posted by carpy

firstly my post was a clear oversimplification, and to describe het as having an invisible gene is a good simple way of describing such an animal in the hobby.

in your example - whilst your way of expressing may make sense to you and i, for someone new to genetics you may as well use chinese characters. so instead of going and explaining it as you have i feel it alot easier and simpler to understand if you explain it as i did, in which case clearly the phenotype of the individual is of course Coral snow, whilst the heterozygous aspect means there is a single gene that is unable to express its phenotype, therefore resulting in a het bloodred coral snow.

its differant methods of explaining, but i think for someone that isnt clued up with genetics my way offers an adequate explanation. you dont teach algebra to 4 year olds in maths classes

i agree with ssistho, sorry. saying het means invisble gene is totally wrong, even when explaining to a beginner. but you could say that it is common eg in corns that traits are recessive and therefore we get used to seeing het animals that aren't visually different. but with royals there are many more dominant traits for example and codominate traits like motley and stripe means someone could be fooled an ad for a corn that is described as het stripe and het motley whenif that was the case it would be a motley.