Hi all,



I know het status can be proven *IF* you observe fully recessive offspring from a cross with another known recessive or het morph. The flip side is that you can't absolutely prove homogenous genes though probablistic means should give you a pretty good guess if the sample is large enough.



Question is... how hard would you try to confirm het status before giving up? Say you have a 50% chance of getting albino offspring from a het x albino crossing. How many "normal looking" offspring would you go through before declaring the original "potential het" to be a non-het?



Granted, you could always wait for the normal-looking offspring from the "potential het" x albino to grow up (giving you your hets) but that puts you a generation behind schedule and may not work if you're only breeding to the albino to prove or disproving het status of the parent for that particular gene.



N.F.

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