My comments were in reference to the flawed theory regarding calico boas as being "hets with the albino showing through." an albino is either heterozygous,or homozygous...if you breed one of these so called "calico" animals to a homozygous albino of the same strain,and produce all amelanistic offspring,then the animal in question is homozygous,expressing some sort of amel. defect...IF, on the other hand,it produces 50% albino,50% normal looking offspring as a result...well,then...you guessed it, "it's" a het expressing some sort of pigment flaw/anomoly,that may,or may not have anything to do with the gene responsible for albinism...genetic status proven through behavior when bred,rather than trying to re-write everything we know about genetic theory to avoid saying "I don't know". ?
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