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i have tried using the genetics wizard some on here advocate. but it has led me to some confusion.

i wanted to see what an anerythristic het for albino bred to a hypo het for albino would produce.
what i got was:

25% het hypo, het anery
50% het hypo, het anery, het albino
25% albino, het hypo het anery

am i really looking at 75% normal with double or triple het, or ghosts het albino? i know anery is going to play het in most of these percentages and probably never show up homozygous, but i'm still new to boa genetics and a little confused as to if it will attach to the hypo, albino or just remain unseen.
then again i might have entered it into the wizard wrong.

I got
12.5% het anery
12.5% hypo het anery (double het ghost)
25% het anery het albino (double het snow)
25% het anery het albino het hypo (triple het)
12.5% albino het anery
12.5% sunglow het anery

I didn't get 75% normals I got 37.5% or 3/8 so I think you hit the wrong buttons so when you enter the breeding of a anery het albino to a hypo het albino
enter one at:
homozygous anery
heterozygous albino
wt hypo

and:
wt anery
heterozygous albino
heterozygous hypo

and also keep in mind that since an anery is a recessive gene and a homozygous anery is present that all of the offspring carries the anery gene. Since the two carriers are het albino then 1/4 of the offspring would be typically albino and the rest have a 66% chance of carrying the gene so that is why you have 1/8 albino (of course het anery) and 1/8 sunglow (also het anery). What do you want to produce out of curiosity? Any more ?'s just post them and I'll answer them
Bob

25% het hypo, het anery = normal looking
50% het hypo, het anery, het albino = hypo
25% albino, het hypo het anery = sunglow

The genetics wizard just gives the genes of the various types of babies. The user has to work out what the babies look like from the genotype. The GW also uses the standard genetics definition of "heterozygous" ("het" ). The standard genetics definition (see http://dictionary.reference.com) does not describe what the animal looks like; it simply describes the make up of a gene pair.

The above result is correct if the hypo boa is homozygous hypo (with a gene pair containing two hypo mutant genes). The answer that strictly4fun gave is correct if the hypo boa is heterozygous hypo (having a hypo mutant gene paired with a normal or wild type gene). As most hypos are heterozygous, strictly4fun's answer is more likely to match the actual results of the proposed mating that the GW's answer.

Paul Hollander

beat you to itlol
Bob