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Something sounds fishy. A kingsnake ad is selling POSS het produced from a homo mom and 100% het dad? Better further reduce the price to $25-50.
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Jay A. Martin

could be an unproven morph, thats the only thing i could think of

I think he is wanting some quick cash on a normal. Most people should know a homo. x 100% het. will make homos. and 100% hets. If he did knew this he would be asking more. Thats my opinion.

being new to breeder terms..what exactly is a homo? (other than short for homosexual and I would think if that was the case, who would want to buy it?> would make it very hard to breed I would think LOL)?

LOL - that would an interesting "morph"!
Homo refers to 'homozygous' - meaning that a snake that is homozygous is expressing its gene; i.e.: a snake homo for albino looks albino. Het refers to 'heterozygous' - meaning a snake that is het for albino will look like a normal bp but carry the gene for albino to produce homozygous offspring.

graycat
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Letting me live here:
2.1 normals
0.1 pie ball
1.0 hetpied
? Suriname
? Common snapping turtle
? Alligator snapping turtle
1 Guinea pig
2 gold fish (turtle survivors)
1 pet mouse and
3 cats
Oh yeah, and 3 children!

Correct, it doesn't mean it has a rainbow colored water dish ...

However, I would go with the definition that homozygous means it has a matched pair of genes (as in both of it's genes at the albino mutation's location are the albino mutation type) and heterozygous means that it has an unmatched pair (as in one albino copy and one normal copy) of genes.

When you are talking about recessive mutations then it is correct to say that the homozygous shows the mutation and the heterozygous doesn't. However, the terms homozygous and heterozygous also apply to co-dominant and dominant mutations where heterozygous animals are mutants. By remembering what the terms really mean rather than narrowing it down to the recessive subset you can apply the same genotype inheritance rules to all types of mutations (i.e. pastel, spider, etc.). With all the different types of mutations and combinations it is important to start out right in order to have a hope to figure things out as they get more complicated.

thanks for the info Eventually I will get all this straight.

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Jay A. Martin