>>wait, i was on the NERD site and i found a page with the spider ball on it and they said that the spider is a dominant gen, and if you click on list of all projects, they have a spider X mojave on there.

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>>and if its a double visual het, what type would they look like?











In order to properly grasp an understanding of designer mutations...The first thing you will have to work on is allel pairs..



Picture a dna strand image(pairs of spheres in a double helix).

Now,each of those spheres stands for an allele,and each pair represents a peticular gene..

If both alleles of said gene are present,then the animal is homozygous for the gene.If only one is present,then the animal is heterozygous for the gene.





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pastels yellowbellys and mojaves are visable hets (therefore they each have one allele of each gene,same as recessive genes with het albino,hypo,clown,etc.)

So the odds are the same whether breeding pastel to pastel or het albino to het albino..25 percent chance per egg of getting a homozygous(both alleles)animal..be it an albino..or super pastel..it's all in the alleles

A mojave spider cross is the same thing..just different alleles with the same 25 percent chance.



..hope this was of some help to you...good luck
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Charles Glaspie

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