Hey guys

It's been a while since I took a genetics course, so to save me a few hard lessons and many sheets of paper drawing Punnett Squares, I have a question for those of you with experience.

I have a male redtail who is 100% het for albino (thanks to Dean Mayfield). My female is a pet store rescue with unknown lineage. Her appearance is pretty normal, though her saddles are a little thicker and more numerous with a good amount of small speckles--all in all, pretty normal despite the heavier saddling. I would hardly expect a pet store snake to be carrying anery, albino, salmon, etc. genes.

With this information, the question is, am I right in assuming I can expect ~25% of my litter to be albino? And if not, what am I missing in my figuring besides having unforeseen genetics (anery, albino, etc) in my female?

Thanks
NG

PS--feel free to launch into science talk about genetics, I'm a chemist with a few years pre-pharmacy work under my belt but not much recently in genetics. I'd be happy to look up terminology used that I'm not familiar with.

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