As both hypothetical parents are hypos, then all their babies would at least be homozygous for hypo. Any "normal" hypo offspring would have a chance at carrying the lavender and the diffused gene in heterozygous form. Each parent would have a 50% chance of passing that particular mutant gene to the offspring, so there would be no 100% hets. 100% means that the baby is absolutely carrying a particular trait in heterozygous form.
If you pulled this out into a punnet square, you'd find that about 2/3 of the babies would be carrying the diffused gene in het form and another 2/3 would be carrying the lavender gene in het form. And there would be a small overlap between the two that would include babies carrying *both* genes in het form. Because of this 2/3 ratio that occurs when the parents both are het for the same trait, this becomes a 66% het. There is a 66% chance that the baby is carrying that particular trait... but it also means there is a 33% chance it is *not*.
If only one parent has a particular het, then all the offspring have a 50% chance of carrying that trait.
If you breed a hypo het plasma (diffused lavender) to an actual plasma you will get some plasma offspring, yes. The plasma parent will automatically contribute a diffused gene and a lavender gene. Your het girl would have a 50% chance of contributing a particular gene. So 50% of the babies would be lavenders. 50% would be diffused. And there would be an overlap where both genes are present. So in the end you'd have a clutch that was 25% normals het for hypo (from mom), diffused and lavender (from dad), 25% lavenders, 25% diffused, and 25% plasmas (this is the overlap. Half the diffused and half the lavenders carry both traits together, equaling a plasma).
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