Posted by:
ChrisGilbert
at Sat Jun 25 11:22:48 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ChrisGilbert ]
The mutation that causes Hypomelanism is inherited through dominance, the mutation is dominant not the animal.
I will try to put this accurately, but simple. A non-super hypo when bred to a normal will give a 50/50 ratio, odds derived by punnet squares. A Super Hypo when bred to a normal will give 100% hypo offspring, however each of those is a non-super.
Here is the heterozygous part. An animal that has just one allele for a trait is heterozygous, if it has a matching pair of alleles it is homozygous. A Super is homozygous, and should be called a homozygous hypo not super. A non-super is heterozygous and should be called a heterozygous hypo. The difference here between say albino offspring, the het hypos look like the homozygous hypos.
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