If i was to take a regulare phase female and an albino male, they would produce albino hets.Right? then if i took the babies and bred them with the father the offspring would be albinos, right? and would that inbreeding cause any weaknesses to the babies?
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breeding
iggyluver
Jul 05, 2004 04:04 PM
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milwaukeereptile
Jul 05, 2004 11:01 PM
Breeding an albino to a normal will give you hets (unless the normal is already a het... hard to tell unless you breed her). Breeding hets back to the father should give you 50% albino, 50 % hets.
Hets
|__A__|__a__|
___|_____|_____|
a | Aa | aa |
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a__|_Aa__|__aa_|
| | |
| | Albinos
| Normal Hets
Albino
Sorry for the poor diagram.
As for the weakening of the species... this is a whole can of worms so I won't go into depth. I, personally, believe that one or two inbreeding is fine. More then that and I say you're weaking the species (indicated by kinked dails, deformed eyelids, blindness, ect). I don't really want to argue the issue here but those are my beliefs and, from what I've read, somewhat agreeded upon as symptoms of inbreeding.
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Brian Skibinski
Milwaukee Reptiles
Brian@MilwaukeeReptiles.com
milwaukeereptile
Jul 05, 2004 11:03 PM
Damn.. my diagram didn't come out right... it looked nice in the text editor! oh well here:
http://www.geneticswizard.com/
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Brian Skibinski
Milwaukee Reptiles
Brian@MilwaukeeReptiles.com
