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LUBU

LUBU

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Sorry if this is a noob question, but when somthing is 50% het albino, does this mean that 50% of the babies are going to be albinos or does it mean their is a 50% chance it will have any albinos.
 
50% het animals have a 50% chance of being het for whatever trait...Heads it is, tails it isn't...They are produced when you cross a definate (100%) het animal to one that isn't...
 
So if I crossed an albino bp with a norm there is a 50% chance the babies will be albino, but all the babies will be 50% het albino?
 
All the babies would be normal, but they would all be het for amel...you could breed the babies (F1's) together to get amels and 66% het babies (normals with a 66% chance of carrying amelanism), or back to the amel parent for amels and 100% het amels...
 
And could you also get an albino from any breed, because someone told me that they are a genetic mutation.
 
"Albino" is a recessive genetic trait...an "albino" ball python is homozygous for amelanism, which means it expresses it visibly...Take your homozygous amelanistic ball python and breed it to a normal ball python, the amelanism gets passed on to all the babies, but in a heterozygous form...simple terms, they are all carriers of the trait, they just dont express it homozygously (I'm slaughtering simple genetics here, but the gist is right)...
 
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