after much dicusssions about this on this and other forums i asked the question ,if you breed a het x het pair and end up with more than the 1/4 albino you expect does that mean more of the albino line has gone into the visuals and less to the remainin hets

Ie breeding no 1 , het x het and you end up with 50% albinos ,the rest possibles ( this has happened before )

and breeding no2 , het x het and you end up with none or next to none visual albinos ( also been know before )

so would you say there is less chance that the normal looking ones in the first litter are hets , than in the second litter ? well the answer is NO , in both cases every single normal looking baby has just as much chance as being a het no matter from which of the 2 litters above , so each single baby stands a 66% possible chance of being a het , it normally does work out 2/3 of the normal looking ones ,but can be far from it ,thats the wonderfully word of genetics and probabilty

its like tossing a coin 20 times , if you was asked to bet on tossing all 20 and they end up heads you would almost certainly loose , but if all ready you had heads the first 19 times what is the chance of the 20th being a head ? well its 50/50

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• Question about 66% hets - cyn, Sun Mar 4 02:19:16 2007
• RE: Question about 66% hets - maizeysdad, Sun Mar 4 05:04:57 2007
• RE: Question about 66% hets - Sharpman, Sun Mar 4 05:56:16 2007
• RE: Question about 66% hets - BRB_Russ, Sun Mar 4 07:16:40 2007
• long answer - amarilrose, Sun Mar 4 08:16:51 2007
• RE: long answer - Sharpman, Sun Mar 4 10:09:21 2007
• RE: long answer - cyn, Sun Mar 4 13:16:07 2007
• RE: long answer - Craig K., Sun Mar 4 16:34:10 2007
• RE: Question about 66% hets - Slithering_Serpents, Sun Mar 4 18:58:48 2007