I'm getting a bit lost in the lingo here. Maybe someone could write up a quick glossery of terms...like
Het=??
UTH=Under Tank Heater
etc.
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Help out the newbie-glossery of terms?
veefour
Jun 22, 2004 07:50 PM
Replies (5)
toddbecker
Jun 22, 2004 08:16 PM
It honastly would be easier for you to identify the terms that you do not know and I will fill them in for you. But just to shoot blindly I could be here for a while. To start off with het is short for heterozygous which means that an animal carries only one gene of a specific trait. For example. If you breed a normal ball python with an albino ball python, then all the offspring will be normal in appearance but they all will carry one albino gene. Therefore they are all heterozygous or het for short for albino. Give me a list ok, Todd
cranwill
Jun 22, 2004 09:54 PM
I just happen to have one on my FAQ page...
Here's the link... 
www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~cranwill/faq24.html
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veefour
Jun 22, 2004 10:03 PM
thanks...that one helped a bit
littleherper
Jun 22, 2004 11:03 PM
het= heterozegus... i think thats how its spelled... if something is het for something it means that there is a percentage chance that is has the reccesive gene for that something... im confusing myself. basically. if you have a normal bp that is 66% het for albino. then there is a 66% chance that it carries the reccesive gene for albino bp.
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sincerely,
jonathan
JDDK Reptiles www.jddkreptiles.com
littleherper
Jun 22, 2004 11:06 PM
my bad.
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sincerely,
jonathan
JDDK Reptiles www.jddkreptiles.com
