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Simple Genetics?

seth Mar 19, 2004 05:20 PM

Hi,
I was wondering if in a year when my female snow is at breeding size if i breed her to a Anery B male what the offspring would be. Am i correct in assuming that about 1/4 of them would be blizzard, 1/4 would be snow, 1/4 would be anery b, and the other 1/4 would be hetero for anery and snow?

Thanks
Seth
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0.1 Snow Corn
1.0 Kenyan Sand Boa
0.1 Fat-tailed Gecko
0.0.3 D.Leucomelas
0.0.1 Leopard Gecko

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Kat Mar 19, 2004 05:40 PM

Snow is a combination of type A Anerythrism and Amelanism.

Anery A and Anery B are incompatible forms of Anerythrism.

Anery A, B, and Amelanism are all recessive traits.

Ergo, snow X anery B (Charcoal) will yield 100% normals triple het for anery A, anery B, and amel.

If your snow is het for Anery B, or if your Anery B is het (or masked-homozygous) for Anery A, or het for amel, you will get some non-normals in your offspring.
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"You keep WHAT in your freezer?"
"Mice. And rats. If that bothers you, I can call them 'cows' instead."

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