>Well I'm a little confused and could use some help, I'm just not getting it... If I have an Albino male and bred him with a female Pied dh for albino what is the outcome? And what if I bred the albino male with a female albino dh for pied. Thank you for your help in advance. I tried the genetics calculator and I screwed that up and I did use the search, but I can't find solid answers. Thanks!



"dh" stands for double heterozygous. A dh albino pied would look normal. "Pied dh for albino" sounds to me like you mean a pied snake that is het for albino. And "albino dh for pied" sounds like you mean an albino snake that is het for pied. However, if you mean normal-looking snakes in both cases, post again.



albino male X pied female that's also het albino -->

1/2 albino het pied

1/2 normal-looking het albino and het pied (dh albino pied)



The problem above involves two gene pairs.



Gene Pair #1. The male has two albino mutant genes. The female has an albino gene paired with a normal gene. All the babies get an albino gene from the father. Half the babies get an albino gene from the mother, and half the babies get a normal gene from the mother. The babies with two albino genes are albinos. The babies with a normal gene and an albino gene (het albinos) do not deviate from looking normal.



Gene Pair #2. The female has a pair of pied genes. The male has a pair of normal genes. All babies get a pied gene from the mother and a normal gene from the father making all of them het pieds. As far as this gene pair is concerned, none of the babies deviate from looking normal.



albino male X albino female het pied -->

1/2 albino

1/2 albino het pied



This problem also involves two gene pairs, but I am out of time.



There is no way to tell the difference between an albino baby and an albino het pied baby from the second mating. So these could all be described as albino 50% probability het pied.



By the way, the fractions are what one expects. The actual numbers may or may not match the expectations.



Paul Hollander

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