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sry but gotta ask
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gardenmum
Hopelessly Addicted
A het
is another way of saying a recessive trait. Homo is the dominate trait (what the snake shows in looks) and het is the recessive traits (what the snake carries in its genes and can produce in its offspring if bred to another snake with the same traits).
This is an excellent site, by Serpwidgets, to go to to understand a bit about genentics, homozygous and heterozygous traits:
http://serpwidgets.com/cornsnakes/genetics/genetics.html
is another way of saying a recessive trait. Homo is the dominate trait (what the snake shows in looks) and het is the recessive traits (what the snake carries in its genes and can produce in its offspring if bred to another snake with the same traits).
This is an excellent site, by Serpwidgets, to go to to understand a bit about genentics, homozygous and heterozygous traits:
http://serpwidgets.com/cornsnakes/genetics/genetics.html
wade
Save The Humans
Well not exactly
Het is short for heterozygous. The opposite would be homozygous. Homozygous means that the genes at a particular locus are the same. An example would be an albino would have two albino genes and would appear to be an albino. Hetrozygous means the genes are not the same. If an animal had a pair of genes where one was albino and the other was normal, the animal would appear to be normal because normal is dominant. Since it has the albino gene you could say the animal is normal hetrozygous for albino.
Het is short for heterozygous. The opposite would be homozygous. Homozygous means that the genes at a particular locus are the same. An example would be an albino would have two albino genes and would appear to be an albino. Hetrozygous means the genes are not the same. If an animal had a pair of genes where one was albino and the other was normal, the animal would appear to be normal because normal is dominant. Since it has the albino gene you could say the animal is normal hetrozygous for albino.
gardenmum
Hopelessly Addicted
Re: Well not exactly
UMMM....that is exactly what I said, homo is the dominate and het is the recessive, hence what you see is the dominate or homo gene and what it is carrying is the het or non-dominate, recessive gene.
I don't know why you said 'not exactly'. I made it simple and told him to go to Serp's site to get detailed info.
wade said:
UMMM....that is exactly what I said, homo is the dominate and het is the recessive, hence what you see is the dominate or homo gene and what it is carrying is the het or non-dominate, recessive gene.
I don't know why you said 'not exactly'. I made it simple and told him to go to Serp's site to get detailed info.
Kat
I'm talkin' to YOU.
gardenmum, you're a little confused...
Homo is NOT the dominant gene. Homozygous means that there are two copies of the same gene. That could mean two copies of the dominant gene, or two copies of the recessive gene; you just need two of the same.
Het, or heterozygous, means that you have two different genes. Typically this means you have one copy of a dominant gene and one copy of a recessive gene, but it can ALSO mean that you have one copy of two -different- codominant genes.
-Kat
Homo is NOT the dominant gene. Homozygous means that there are two copies of the same gene. That could mean two copies of the dominant gene, or two copies of the recessive gene; you just need two of the same.
Het, or heterozygous, means that you have two different genes. Typically this means you have one copy of a dominant gene and one copy of a recessive gene, but it can ALSO mean that you have one copy of two -different- codominant genes.
-Kat
