het?

[Josh]

what does het mean

example "Possible het plains " or

Flame eastern garters
50% and 66% possible hets for
leucistic

[Morph]

Heterozygous (Het): Having two different alleles of a particular gene in a gene pair. The two alleles may be different mutants or a wild type allele paired with a recessive mutant or a dominant mutant or a codominant mutant. For instance, a crossbreeding between an albino ball python and a normal ball python will produce offspring that have a normal gene paired with an albino (recessive) gene. These babies are heterozygous for albino. (See also homozygous, dominant, codominant, recessive.)

source: www.reptilekeepers.co.uk

[Odie]

Thanks

[KITKAT]

To add to that excellent answer, a possible het is when the breeding pair are both hets. When that happens, the offspring may carry the trait or not carry the trait, and there is no way to know whether they do carry it until they are bred. Therefore, they are "possible" hets.

[Snaky]

Maybe this is interesting for you:
http://www.thamnophis.com/caresheets...title=Genetics

It's not finished though, still working on it.

PS: if somebody knows how to make the table layout correct... I use |col|col| approach, but it does not work.

[Lulu Bennett]

Heterozygous (Het): Having two different alleles of a particular gene in a gene pair. The two alleles may be different mutants or a wild type allele paired with a recessive mutant or a dominant mutant or a codominant mutant. For instance, a crossbreeding between an albino ball python and a normal ball python will produce offspring that have a normal gene paired with an albino (recessive) gene. These babies are heterozygous for albino. (See also homozygous, dominant, codominant, recessive.)

source: Reptile Keepers - For Reptiles and Thier Keepers.

lol i was curious about that too but that went straight over my head. maybe i should get some sleep and try reading it tomorrow morning lol

[Morph]

this will probably help

Allelle: any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation.

[Lulu Bennett]

lol yup thanks mate lol

[KITKAT]

An allele is a PAIR of genes, that together, govern the inheritance of a specific trait.

For example, there is an albino allele. In this allele you can have two albino genes = cc.

You can have two full-color genes = CC.

Or you can have (a "het") one of each = Cc.

[Lulu Bennett]

pmsl you sure did spell that out for me. i understood that perfectally lol thanks