Your initial explanation I found to be very confusing. I mean no offense but I did not see where your argument was supported. Your odds explanation seemed very strange, almost as if we were discussing betting odds, not genetics.

I must point out that you nor your wife are chimps. With that said, your blue/brown eyed hypothesis has no bearing on this cross as you and your wife did not produce a Human X primate with brown or blue eyes. What I am trying to get at is that inheriteed traits take on a whole new form in the visual expression in hybrids.

I just need to make sure we are on the same page here...
So you are saying when you cross an Angolan and a Ball, you will actually get anything from a pure 100% Angolan to a pure 100ºll and every percentage in between? You stated initially:

"Any offspring inheriting all odd numbers from the Angolan Ball would, therefore, be 50% Angolan Python 50% Ball Python. Any offspring inheriting all even numbers from the Angolan Ball would, therefore, be 100% Ball Python"

This is a concept I don't think any geneticist would agree with.

Just my chunk of change.

-Yasser
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