No are we all just trying to show off our intellect for all the snake chics out there or are you people really this damn smart? I understand that some science is needed for the breeding, care and maintenance of our animals, but this is just getting silly. Your post reads more like my 17 year olds algebra problems then it does a breeding or care question. But seeing you brought up the example of the tall man and short woman (or was it a tall woman and short man?....) this is something that I can relate to.
This example is a completely wrong analogy. Your example indicates that the two genes fused to combine and result in a medium sized child. This is not the case in the salmon line of hypos. The co-dominate term was/is used to explain that with each breeding of a normal boa to a first generation hypo you will get an equal amount of offspring that show the traits of either parent. They won’t combine to blend and make just a little bit litter boas, half will be salmon and half will not be (statistically). Whether or not that is the proper way to describe it to a biology professor or a genealogist (is that even a word?) is not the point, it worked to explain it to the herpers of the world who were going to be using the trait in future breedings.
If you had told me that the trait was “simple dominant” then I would have expected it to be dominant through the entire clutch instead of sharing the dominance with the normal coloring trait. As far as how many alles it took to make the trait, it means nothing to me because I am not sure of what the heck an alle is or why it is making things inside my snakes. Thanks for trying to explain it to me but I am just to old to learn new tricks LOL!
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

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