If I am correct if you cross a pastel to a normal you get more pastels and 0 het pastel? Is that correct?
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Pastels???
Lamiellm
Oct 10, 2007 06:44 PM
Replies (5)
melindaste
Oct 10, 2007 07:01 PM
Breeding a pastel you get pastels and normals. There are no hets for pastels.
RinL
Oct 10, 2007 07:09 PM
Pastels are the hets for super pastel
albinosteve75
Oct 10, 2007 08:57 PM
no pastel is a codom trait not a het
melindaste
Oct 10, 2007 10:09 PM
But that is not what he was asking.
RandyRemington
Oct 10, 2007 10:31 PM
Only because there is so much confusion on what "het" really means.
The pastel phenotype animals are heterozygous for the pastel mutation; they have an unmatched pair of genes at the pastel location, one with the pastel mutation and one normal for pastel.
Understand that the pastel parent is a het then you see why each of it's eggs has a 50/50 chance to be a het for the pastel mutation too. The pastel has two different copies of the gene to pick from because it is heterozygous. A homozygous albino produces 100% albino hets with a normal because it only has one type of albino gene - the albino mutant version, so must give it to 100% of it's offspring.
