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AntoSnake
12-09-2002, 01:29 PM
I wanna Know what does it mean double Het, I know what means het. If is possible to explain me it with some example pls.
Thank yuou ;)

Ken Harbart
12-09-2002, 04:53 PM
Well, since you already know what het is, this will be easy. Double het means merely that the animal is heterozygous for two different traits. A good example is a double het for snow corn. The snake is het for anery and het for amel. Taken a step further, a triple het is heterozygous for three traits.

Since hets and double hets are visually indistinguishable from normals, a picture wouldn't be of any use in explaining it.