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Hey everybody!!!,
I've been trying to find info without much luck. I have a female "normal" albino and a male green het. for albino burm. I dont know if the green is het for green albino, or if it is possible, could it be het for normal albino? I'm trying to figure out what I would probably get if I breed them. Is green a recessive quality? Thanks

Gentics is not my thing i know you will get some albinos,some normals, normal looking one het for albino and green. Not sure on the percentages. Good luck.

>>Hey everybody!!!,
>>I've been trying to find info without much luck. I have a female "normal" albino and a male green het. for albino burm. I dont know if the green is het for green albino, or if it is possible, could it be het for normal albino? I'm trying to figure out what I would probably get if I breed them. Is green a recessive quality? Thanks
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Okay,
Now originally I thought I would get greens, and albinos. How do normals pop into the mix? Also if anyone knows of any sites/books that might explain it in more detail? Thanks again!

The information you gave was a bit muddled but I think I have the answers you were asking for. First of if the male is a green het for albino and the female is just an albino then the resulting offspring would be 50% Normal Burmese het for green and for albino and 50% albino burmese het for green. Now if by chance your female is het for green (yes that is possible) then the resulting offspring would be 25% normal het for green and for albino, 25% green het for albino, 25% albino het for green, and 25% albino green. There is a really helpfull website that will do all these calculations if you are unable to do them or if you just chose not to sit and try and figure it out. The website is geneticswizard.com. Go and give it a try it is extremely helpfull. Anyway I hope this clarified everything for you, Todd

>I've been trying to find info without much luck. I have a female "normal" albino and a male green het. for albino burm. I dont know if the green is het for green albino, or if it is possible, could it be het for normal albino?

You stated that the male is green het. for albino. This tells me that he has a pair of green mutant genes at one location in his genome. And he has a normal gene paired with an albino mutant gene at a different spot in his genome.

Your male and female have the same albino mutant gene. It's just that she has a pair of albino mutant genes, and he has an albino mutant gene paired with a normal gene.

BTW, green is recessive to normal, but the normal version of the albino mutant gene is not the normal version of the green mutant gene. Albino and green are like apples and donuts. Putting a pair of green apples in your shopping basket has no effect on the shape of the pair of donuts in the basket.

H. B. Bechtel's Color Variants in Reptiles and Amphibians has one of the best discussions of green that I know of.

Paul Hollander