kornsnaker
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How do people get albinos just by breeding normal cornsnakes?
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Darin Chappell
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If they're "just" normals, you can't get albinos (amelanistic or snow) at all. In order for two normal looking snakes to produce amelanistics, snows, anerythristics, or any other mutation, the parents must both carry the mutated genes in their DNA. In other words, they must both be "het" for the mutations you see in the produced hatchlings for those mutations to occur.
kornsnaker
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ohhh
ok thanks
ok thanks
Blue Dragon
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I have a question
I have a question then
how did snows and all the others came about ?
I have a question then
how did snows and all the others came about ?
bmm
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well
For one there is two albinos, Anery which is sometimes called a black albino carries the gene which removes the red leaving you with a grey and black animal......and Red Albinos also called Amelanistic corns carry the gene to remove te blacks....
When both THOSE albino genes are present you get a snow becuase both the red and black are removed.
I don't know much about genetics so experts correct me please !
bmm
For one there is two albinos, Anery which is sometimes called a black albino carries the gene which removes the red leaving you with a grey and black animal......and Red Albinos also called Amelanistic corns carry the gene to remove te blacks....
When both THOSE albino genes are present you get a snow becuase both the red and black are removed.
I don't know much about genetics so experts correct me please !
bmm
Susan
Go Ahead, Make My Day!
To try to answer Blue Dragon's question...
Mutations can occur naturally in the wild. They may be good ones (such as a new color that blends into the background better) or bad ones (such as flies having curly wings making it impossible to fly), easily observed (again, a new color) or somewhat hidden (such as a better sense of smell). Pure albinos, having NO pigmant at all, is seen in almost every species. Partial albinism is also seen. If a specimen is lucky enough to survive in the wild (a white or red snake would be more easily spotted by a preditor) and reproduce at least once, it's offspring would carry that heterozygous gene and also pass it on to it's offspring. Someone catches one of these individuals and starts breeding it in captivity. By chance, or on purpose, it is bred to another snake carrying the same hidden gene. Suddenly, the person gets this hatchling that is homozygous for this mutated gene and shows it's effects (an amel, an aneryth, a motley, etc.) Now the person tries to reproduce it by inbreeding, and then...you eventually get the wide variety of corn snakes we now have, and there are probably more to come.
Mutations can occur naturally in the wild. They may be good ones (such as a new color that blends into the background better) or bad ones (such as flies having curly wings making it impossible to fly), easily observed (again, a new color) or somewhat hidden (such as a better sense of smell). Pure albinos, having NO pigmant at all, is seen in almost every species. Partial albinism is also seen. If a specimen is lucky enough to survive in the wild (a white or red snake would be more easily spotted by a preditor) and reproduce at least once, it's offspring would carry that heterozygous gene and also pass it on to it's offspring. Someone catches one of these individuals and starts breeding it in captivity. By chance, or on purpose, it is bred to another snake carrying the same hidden gene. Suddenly, the person gets this hatchling that is homozygous for this mutated gene and shows it's effects (an amel, an aneryth, a motley, etc.) Now the person tries to reproduce it by inbreeding, and then...you eventually get the wide variety of corn snakes we now have, and there are probably more to come.