Question about morphs.
Im still fairly new to reptile morphs, so theres a few things I get confused over. I understand the basics, but I thought of something that left me wondering...
Lets say you have a Blizzard that is Het for Patternless.. Its morph, and what it is Het for would be simple recessive. However, this confuses me. How is it that you can even get this? Both traits are recessive, so what makes it a blizzard? Is blizzard simply a little more dominant than Patternless? Is it completely random as to which trait will be more dominant? And when using a punnet square, is there any way to figure out what the offspring will be since they are both recessive genes? Thanks. |
It's a blizzard because it has two copies, aka homozygous, for the gene for blizzard. It would be het patternless because it only has one copy of the gene for patternless. For a simple recessive morph, you need two copies of a gene to make it visual.
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I will try to answer your question the best I can, I will be using ball python morphs in my example.
Pied is recessive, so is albino. So if you breed the 2 together, you will have an entire clutch of non visuals. All of the clutch will be 100% double het Albino/Pied. Breed those babies together, and eventually a Visual Albino Pied will happen Now breed the Albino Pied to a Pied. Since both parents are pieds, all the offspring will be Pieds, and since one parent is also Albino but not the other, All offspring will also be 100% het albino. So the entire Clutch will be Pied 100% het Albino. This example can be used with any simple recessive morph, from any species. And to answer your other question. No, one recessive is not more Dominant than the other. It all depends on what the parents were. Hope this helps |
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