Well, you have to understand that genetics probabilities are just that...probabilities. I can flip a quarter and have a 50% chance of having it land heads up, but that is only the probability of the matter. I can actually flip that quarter 1000 times in a row, and it is possible that it lands on tails each time. What is the probability that the 1001st flip will land on heads? Still just 50-50.

So, the fact that you got no amels, when the calculator says you could, is not alone evidence that you never could. The probabilities will frustrate you like nothing else will, if you breed corns long enough.

If your blizzard is het for anery A, and it threw that mutated gene it has at that DNA location (instead of the normal gene it also has there), then that, combined with the mutated gene that your snow had to throw (because he is homozygous for the anery A gene and has no normal gene to offer), then ALL of the babies would be snows het for charcoal.

As for crossing a snow x a banded motley het amel, the expected results SHOULD look something like:

50% amel, het for anery A and motley

and

50% normal, het for amel, anery A, and motley

Hope that helps a bit...
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

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• Genetics Question...... - Colorfulcorns, Wed Jul 12 13:34:51 2006
• RE: Genetics Question...... - Darin Chappell, Wed Jul 12 14:54:16 2006
• Another possibility... - Kat, Wed Jul 12 15:26:41 2006
• RE: Another possibility... - Colorfulcorns, Wed Jul 12 16:58:18 2006
• Only one way... - Darin Chappell, Wed Jul 12 17:57:04 2006
• RE: Only one way... - Colorfulcorns, Wed Jul 12 18:39:40 2006
• RE: Only one way... - Darin Chappell, Thu Jul 13 15:03:48 2006
• Thanks for the info.....n/p - Colorfulcorns, Thu Jul 13 18:32:08 2006
• RE: Thanks for the info.....n/p - Creaturesofthenight, Thu Jul 13 21:55:55 2006
• RE: Thanks for the info.....n/p - Colorfulcorns, Fri Jul 14 13:01:16 2006
• RE: Thanks for the info.....n/p - Darin Chappell, Fri Jul 14 14:54:06 2006
• RE: Thanks for the info.....n/p - Colorfulcorns, Fri Jul 14 18:25:28 2006