If you breed a Jungle Corn (50% Corn, 50% Cal King) to a normal Corn you get a Super Corn (75% Corn, 25% Cal King). If you bred a Super Corn (75% Corn, 25% Cal King) to a normal corn would the offspring be 100% corn?
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Super Corn???
HerpHeaven
Dec 27, 2003 08:48 PM
Replies (3)
foxturtle
Dec 27, 2003 10:19 PM
You would have an 87.5%, 12.5% Cal king. No matter how much you breed back, you would always have a partial corn snake. The cal king percentage would go from 12.5 to 6.25 to 3.125 to 1.5625 to 0.78125 to 0.390625 etc... at that point you would have a 99.6 percent corn roughly, and it would never get to 100%
markg
Dec 29, 2003 04:16 PM
According to geometric theory, the area of a circle is (pi)r-squared. But pi is a repeating number.. it never ends. Therefore, an area of a circle shouldn't be a finite value.
In the real world, our circles are of finite area. Maybe they aren't 100% true, but good enough. I bet a kingsnake with 0.4% of cornsnake will look and act like a kingsnake such that you or I would never know there was corn in its history. I'm guessing.
boscoman76
Dec 30, 2003 02:38 PM
You are right. This is how many albino morphs for newer snakes (ie honduran) are made. In the case of the hondo an albino nelson was breed to a honduran. After these offspring were breed back into a true honduran enough to reach the F8 generation the genetics were pure enough to call them albino honduran milksnakes.
tom
