genes, I need help understanding some terms

[dave84]

I'm looking for information regarding what the following terms describe:
50%-100% het.
simple recessive trait
proven co-dormait
ex. 1.0.0 2.0
etc.
this might be to much to explain to someone, but if someone knows where I can find this info it would be helpful.

thanx

[becky]

1.2.3

The first digit is the number of males, second is females, and the third in the number of unsexed. the above would be 1 male, 2 females and 3 unsexed animals.

As far as simple recessive traits,
An albino is a homozygous simple recessive animal, meaning that it is a visual mutation.. If an albino was bred to a normal wild type animal, the offspring would all be hets, or heterozygous.
You get possible hets by breeding a heterozygous animal to a normal. They are called 50% possible hets because each animal in that clutch has a 50/50 chance of being het, but you can not visually tell the difference between the hets and normals.

Co-dom would be like pastels. the pastel being like a visual het form of a super pastel. pastel x pastel=(average of 4 eggs) you should get 1 super, 2 pastels, and 1 normal. I have seen alot of clutches defy the odds in either direction, but I find this is the easiest way to look at it.

Al & Becky at NEWReptiles.com

[dave84]

Thanks alot,

Dave

[dave84]

If I tried to breed 100% het to a normal would I get half morphs and half hets or something close or am I totally off?

[Seamus Haley]

http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~cranwill/faq22.html

Read it... Tim Cranwill did an EXCELLENT job putting together a basic mendelian genetics primer, using snake morphs as examples.

[dave84]

perfect, thanx