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I bred a striped female to a carrot tail. I know that orange in the carrot tail is a line trait. but what about stripes? is it agenetic trait? If i take 2 hets from this cross and breed them, what will i get?

thanks

You may or may not get stripes and or carrot tails....
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Christina

1.3.1 leos
-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)

-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)

-0.0.1 albino (supposed Tremper)(Spitfire)

-1.0 tangerine rainwater albino (Bronx)

I has feeling some of Stirpe line are line trait from Jungle. The jungle are ressivce and they line bred to create stripes out of it. Indulces some of Stripe line are genetic
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Preston Berry
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stripes,hypo,tang,ct,snow, and all the other traits that are line bred are genetic. THey are just multiple alelle pairs. Just because they aren't recessive, co-dom, incomplete dom, or dominant doesn't mean it isn't genetic. it is like skin color in humans.
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0.1 Albino Leopard gecko (Lex)
0.0.1 ball python (felix)
1.1 feral cats (Fuzzy, and Bear)

I completely missed the stripe/genetic trait part of the question!...lol I was in a bit of a rush. Yes, generally appearance is based on genetics (although environment plays a big role in appearance as well). tangerine, albino, jungle, stripe, snow, etc, etc, etc....are all "genetic"...however traits like albinism, patternlessness, and blizzard are based on a single genes alleles. Base color (normal, tangerine, snow, pastel...etc) and pattern (normal, jungle, stripe, etc) and similar things are based on many genes controling how the animal's final appearance comes out...that's why you can end up with spotless bright orange geckos and jungle patterned white geckos and everything in between. If you're asking whether stripe is controlled by a single gene, the answer is no, there are many different genes that contribute to it...meaning that if you breed a stripe to a stripe you will probably get mostly stripes but many may not be, but if you breed it to a normal, you may end up with some stripes and some normals, or all normals, or all stripes...its a line bred trait, meaning that the more you cross like appearing animals the more offspring you'll get that look like the parents.

Sorry that's so long...I hope its understandable...let me know I need to try to put it in more simple terms.
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Christina

1.3.1 leos
-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)

-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)

-0.0.1 albino (supposed Tremper)(Spitfire)

-1.0 tangerine rainwater albino (Bronx)