25% het hypo, het anery = normal looking
50% het hypo, het anery, het albino = hypo
25% albino, het hypo het anery = sunglow

The genetics wizard just gives the genes of the various types of babies. The user has to work out what the babies look like from the genotype. The GW also uses the standard genetics definition of "heterozygous" ("het" ). The standard genetics definition (see http://dictionary.reference.com) does not describe what the animal looks like; it simply describes the make up of a gene pair.

The above result is correct if the hypo boa is homozygous hypo (with a gene pair containing two hypo mutant genes). The answer that strictly4fun gave is correct if the hypo boa is heterozygous hypo (having a hypo mutant gene paired with a normal or wild type gene). As most hypos are heterozygous, strictly4fun's answer is more likely to match the actual results of the proposed mating that the GW's answer.

Paul Hollander

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• another genetics question - bloo, Tue Aug 28 19:56:55 2007
• RE: another genetics question - strictly4fun, Tue Aug 28 21:24:59 2007
• RE: another genetics question - Paul Hollander, Wed Aug 29 13:19:02 2007
• Haha Paul.... - strictly4fun, Wed Aug 29 21:01:36 2007