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RE: check out this FAQ

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Posted by: Paul Hollander at Mon Aug 25 19:06:23 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Paul Hollander ]  
   

I looked at the FAQ. This sentence is wrong: "There is no 'Het for Pastel' or 'Het for Mojave'."

A het pastel ball python has a pastel mutant gene paired with a normal gene. And a het Mojave ball python has a Mojave mutant gene paired with a normal gene. These snakes do not look normal, which the FAQ has correct. By definition, an animal that is heterozygous for a dominant or codominant mutant gene does not look normal.

Check a genetics textbook or http://dictionary.reference.com for the definition of "heterozygous". There is no requirement that a heterozygous animal look normal.

Paul Hollander

   

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