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what does het mean

cornsnakemaster28

cornsnakemaster28

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OK I'm looking for new snakes and i see Striped Anerythristic
66% poss. het. and Normal Motley 100% het and many more.

but what does the het part of it mean....????
 
genetics...

het is a term used to say a snake is carrying the gene for a certain morph. Thus a Normal het Amel is hiding the amel gene in it's genes. If bred to an amel partner, they will have 50% amel babies. If you bred two Normals het amels together you'll get 25% amel babies. Hope this helps. For more genetics scroll down or look for any of Serpwidgets posts, he's got a book out that will more than explain what you need to know about corn genetics.
 
Het means that it's carrying two different genes. In this case, it would be a normal gene paired up with a recessive mutant gene. But I don't see which mutant they are talking about.

"Striped Anerythristic 66% poss. het." doesn't make any sense by itself though. What is it 66% poss het for?

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Also the possible hets indicate that it is either het or not het, and the percentage is the chance that it is het.

For example, let's play a game where I flip two coins. If the result is two heads, I tell you that's what it is. Otherwise I do not tell you what the result is.

Given that, when I flip the coins and tell you it's two heads, you know the outcome. But if I say "it's something other than two heads" then what can you determine about the results?

The remaining possibilities are that I got tails/tails, or heads/tails, or tails/heads. There's a 2 in 3 chance (can be rounded to 66%) that one or the other landed on heads. So you could say "66% possible heads/tails, 33% possible tails/tails."

As you know, in reality, the result is either two tails or not, there isn't one coin that has landed 2/3rds of the way on heads. The same applies to hets, they either are het or are not het.

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If it says "100% het" it means that it is definitely het. (Again, in this case it's being applied to a recessive mutant gene. But it must be 100% het for some gene, and just "100% het" by itself doesn't make any sense.)
 
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