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Any recomended reading that would help a old man like me to understand what most of you talk about. (het,amel,hypo, etc.) I've been reading the posts for about a year now and most of it is still Greek to me . Books, magazines, web sites? Pictures showing the different sub/species of kings would be a big help also..thanks

well...

het (heterozygous) means it's a carrier of a recessive trait, it's just masked by a dominant trait. for example you can have a normally colored calking, and breed it to say, an albino cal king, if you get some albino babies it was het for that trait.

homo (homzygous) it desplays the trait because it has both reccesive genes.

amel (amelinistic) means the snake cant produce melinin or black skin pigmints, it's albino

hypo (hypomelisitic) means while it still has the ability to produce melinin, it doesn't produce as much as a normal animal. they look washed out to me.

melinistic (really hypermelinism) means the snake produces more then the normal amount of melinin, these animals can be compleatly black.

as for books, i have a really old (1991) copy of "a color guide to cornsnakes" thats pretty much where i learned most of this, the rest was just paying attention in biology lol

hope that was some help ^__^
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1.1 cal kings
1.0 rat snake

het (heterozygous) means it's a carrier of a recessive trait, it's just masked by a dominant trait. for example you can have a normally colored calking, and breed it to say, an albino cal king, if you get some albino babies it was het for that trait.

wouldn't you get albino babies from the albino you bred the normal colored king to anyway?
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Richard Evans

no not THAT one

het (heterozygous) means it's a carrier of a recessive trait, it's just masked by a dominant trait. for example you can have a normally colored calking, and breed it to say, an albino cal king, if you get some albino babies it was het for that trait.

wouldn't you get albino babies from the albino you bred the normal colored king to anyway?

if the snake wasn't a carrier for the trait then all you would get would be hets because the ressive genes are masked by dominant ones. now if you bred the offspring from an albinoXnormal(het for nothing) pairing then you would get albinos.
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1.1 cal kings
1.0 rat snake

damn, that's confusing..LOL. think I'm gonna plead ignorance and just say, "That's sure a purdy snake..how much?"
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Richard Evans

no not THAT one

just read my post and go to the links the pictures will help you out alot
c-yaaa
Joe Acosta

i guess i should pay attention in bio lol

Only if the normal king was het for albino. So for instance if
AA=normal and aa=albino. When you cross these two you get Aa,Aa,Aa,Aa and Aa=Het for albino looks normal but carries albino gene(a. Now when you take het(Aa)which again looks normal and cross that w/Albino aa then you Aa,aa,aa,aa and what that means is 25% chance for hets and 75% chance for albino. I fyou have any other questions just ask. There is also a glossary of commonly used terms here on kingsnake. Glossary Also a website that really helped me
cornsnakemorphs.com/genetics.html to learn more terms and to get a visual of what some of what they look like
cornsnakemorphs.com/photos.html. I know that it pertains to cornsnakes but it can be applied to any snake. Good luck and happy learning!
Joe Acosta

> het (heterozygous) means it's a carrier of a recessive trait,
> it's just masked by a dominant trait.

Actually no.
Heterozygous means that the two alleles in the gene pair differ, and that is all it means.

In simple mendalian genetics, this often means a dominant and recessive allele. However, this is not always the case. Sometimes the two alleles are codom and the specimen will display traits of both phenotypes (IE people with the AB blood type.)

www.britannica.com/eb/article-9005782
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3.3.5 L. getula californiae
1.0 L. getula nigrita
1.0 Boa constrictor constrictor (suriname, fostering/rescue)
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i guess i didn't pay as much attention in bio as a thought lol
thanks for the corection ^_^
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1.1 cal kings
1.0 rat snake

:
Glossary of Commonly Used Terms

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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Thanks these posts were most helpful for Newbie like me