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08-04-2008, 09:10 PM
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het/heterozygous means that the two halves of the relevant genetic pair are different. it is usually only stated where the gene involved is a recessive gene (recessive means that the animal will only show the trait if both gene copies are the same) where an animal carrying one copy will pass it on to half its offspring whilst still being visually normal. hets are therefore useful to know for breeding purposes.
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08-04-2008, 09:44 PM
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Yes, although you'd want to really remember it as "normal het amelanistic and anerythristic" - Snow is made up of two genes, and if you don't remember that you can't predict what you'd get if you cross ONE half of the combination - like an Amel - to your normal het snow
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08-04-2008, 09:56 PM
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Well, snow is Amelanistic Anerythristic. Lavender is Lavender - it's its own gene (although many lavenders here in the UK are actually Anery Lavenders).
Therefore, since neither parent has a gene in common with the other parent, you'll get ALL normals - who are het for all three genes (AKA "het glacier/snopal") But if you got any (or all) Anerythristics, you KNOW that your lavender is either het or homozygous for anerythristic (and Lavender 'masks' Anery).
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08-04-2008, 10:05 PM
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It's a good idea to know that sort of thing before you pick your initial breeding stock - if it's important to you that you produce something specific (even if it's "not normals!") then you'll need to pick breeding animals with complimentary genes. For example, if you wanted to breed something other than normals with a Snow, you could pick a normal het snow (you'd get SOME normals, but you'd also get amels, anerys and snows), an Amel (all amels), an Anery (all anerys), or maybe something more interesting like a Butter Motley (all amels, but they're het for motley, anery and caramel!) or an Opal (all amels, but they're het for lavender and anery) or a Ghost (all anery het for amel and hypo).
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08-04-2008, 10:09 PM
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Well, maybe i could help me...im looking for some specific breeding stock....and was thinking Corns..(even tho im not a great lover of them) i like Amels... Snows....Anerys... etc..not much for oketee, normal.. and that colourations...
What would be best go for?
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08-04-2008, 10:51 PM
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1 male snow 1 female Amel het Anery 1 female Anery het Amel That will give you half Amel het Anery and half Snow out of the first female; half Anery het Amel and half Snow out of the second female. That way, you get all three options you mention - and you don't have ANY chance of getting normals!
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