How does it go - Better to be silent and thought stupid, than to open you mouth and rmove all doubt. Anyway, knowing nothing about genetics, I was wondering, I have a clutch of annulata. Both parents have imperfect banding. If you breed two smakes from this clutch that have no broken bands. Will you produce more babbies with no broken bands than if you breed together two from the same clutch with broken bands.
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Genetics question.
regnadkcin
Aug 28, 2007 05:19 PM
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DMong
Aug 28, 2007 06:27 PM
I guess you're referring to MY silly signature at the bottom of my posts. It wasn't meant to be offensive at all, I just thought it made sense for life in general.
Anyway, you would more likely get more "broken" bands from a pairing that had more incomplete banding than you otherwise would. But aberrancies like those are impossible to predict, and you can have offspring that are incomplete, and totally "normal" looking, and any combination thereof.....on the same token, you could also mate two complete banded siblings together from that same clutch, and have no broken ones, some broken ones, and/or any combination of the two as well.
But the "theoretical" odds percentage-wise would(should) be greater with two broken-banded pairings.
best regards, ~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"
