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Paul Hollander
at Sun Jan 29 12:00:18 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Paul Hollander ]
>Is that how you make super pastels?
Yes. But not all the babies are super pastels. The statistical result is 1/4 normal, 2/4 pastel, 1/4 super pastel.
In this mating, each parent has a pastel mutant gene paired with a normal gene. When sperm and eggs form, each one gets one member of the pair. So half of the sperm cells get a pastel mutant gene, and the other half of the sperm cells get a normal gene. Same for the eggs. A sperm fertilizes an egg, which reforms the gene pair. Ultimately the fertilized egg develops into an adult snake.
If a sperm with a pastel mutant gene fertilizes an egg with a pastel mutant gene, the snake has a pair of pastel genes and is a super pastel.
If a sperm with a pastel mutant gene fertilizes an egg with a normal gene, the snake has a pastel gene paired with a normal gene and is a pastel.
If a sperm with a normal gene fertilizes an egg with a pastel mutant gene, the snake has a pastel gene paired with a normal gene and is a pastel.
If a sperm with a normal gene fertilizes an egg with a normal gene, the snake has a pair of normal genes and is a normal.
Paul Hollander
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