Basically means the snake carries a recessive gene, such as the Albino or Pied gene.

 

it means that the said snake carrys that gene ie labyrinth 100% het granite so its a labyrinth who carrys the granite gene,breed the labyrinth to a granite and you will get granites from the clutch which will be 100% het labyrinth,also normal 100% double het granite/labyrinth.
you need to animals that are a visual of a recessive gene for that gene to be passed to their young ie two albinos if only one is a visual abino and the other normal but a 100% het albino hafe the young will be albino and the other hafe normal but 100% het albino.
breed two 100% het albinos will give you a chance(25 %) of getting a visual ablino all the rest will be normal but will have a 66% chance of carrying the albino gene!!

 

A het means a reptile thats got a visual parent like a albino for example if you breed two het albinos together you could get a visual albino

 

A het means a reptile thats got a visual parent like a albino for example if you breed two het albinos together you will get a visual albino

you get only a 25% chance of getting a visual!!

 

Simple question I'll try a simple answer.
Using albino as a ressesive example

Albino visual x normal = normal 100% het albino.

100% het albino x 100 het albino = 66% het albino and albinos. So any normals are potentially 100% het albino but you dnt know until that animal produces a visual albino. Once its done that its 100% het. No animal is actually 66% het its the chance of it carrying the albino gene.

100% het albino x normal = normals 50% het albino. Again a snake will either carry the gene or not 50% is the chance it carries it. Once a visual is produced from that snake its 100%.

So 100% het albino means it defo carries the said gene but is of normal appearance. If your buying a het best to stick to sellers you can trust or you can view a visual parent

 

Het = Heterozygous which basically means 1

Genes come in pairs, het or heterozygous means that it has 1 of the genes that makes up that pair.

100% het means that it definately has one of those genes.

 

Simple straight easy to understand answer

 

Wtf...

 

There are two genes in a gene pair. Every gene pair is either heterozygous or homozygous.

Homozygous = The two genes in a gene pair are the same.
Heterozygous = The two genes in a gene pair are NOT the same.

100% het = you are certain that the two genes in the gene pair are not the same.

Herpers usually mean that the two genes in a heterozygous gene pair are a normal gene and a recessive mutant gene (like albino). Actually, the two genes could be a normal gene and a recessive mutant gene, a normal gene and a codominant mutant gene, a normal gene and a dominant mutant gene or two different mutant genes.

The herp looks normal when the gene pair is made up of a normal gene and a recessive mutant gene (like albino in royal pythons).

The herp does not look normal when the gene pair is made up of a normal gene and a codominant mutant gene (like pastel in the royal python).

The herp does not look normal when the gene pair is made up of a normal gene and a dominant mutant gene (like pinstripe in royal pythons).

The herp does not look normal when the gene pair is made up of two different mutant genes.

See the genetics 101 sticky in this forum.

 

100% means an animal is definately het (or hetrozygous or carries) one recessive gene - you need two of a recessive gene for that animal to show/be a visual morph. So a 100% het albino carries the albino gene and there is no chance of it not carrying the albino gene - even though the snake looks like a normal. 100% hets often come from a visual to normal pairing (eg. albino to normal).

In short, the percentage is the chance that the animals is hetrozygous :
100% = definately
66% = 2 in 3 chance of it being het
33% = 1 in 3 chance of it being het

 

Thanks all for the replies! really informative information nd i understand it a lot better.

one question though, if i had say a offspring from a normal and 100% het and then that said offspring bred, what would be the scenario then?

 

100% het x normal = 50% het. As said tho it either carries the ressesive gene or it doesnt! If you don't prove the het out you will never know!