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DH Sunglow questions

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I was wondering if I could get someone to clear something up for me. I bought a DH Sunglow male for my girlfriend, and what my question is, is DH sunglow the right terminology or would it be het hypo albino? what is the difference?

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I'm no genetics expert but here is my 2 cents...

Het. is short for Hetrozygous, meaning that it carries a gene for something even though it is not physically visible. I would think Double het would mean 2 recessive genes but I believe hypo is co-dominant. In this case think it would be labeled a hypo het albino.

That would mean if you bred it to normal female you would get normals, hypos, hypos possible het albino, & possible het albinos. If you bred him to an albino you would get het albinos, hypos het albino, albinos, & sunglows.

Again I'm no expert & I'm sure others with more knowledge then me will jump but hopefully that helped a little & didn't make it more confusing on you.
 
The term dh sunglow is correct as long as your boa is not a super hypo. Het is not linked to recessive it just means it carries one allele. You might be confusing it with phenotype which is what is visually expressed (dominant,recessive)
 
MotorG525 said:
The term dh sunglow is correct as long as your boa is not a super hypo. Het is not linked to recessive it just means it carries one allele. You might be confusing it with phenotype which is what is visually expressed (dominant,recessive)
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maybe I am confused then but if het is not linked to only recessive genes then your saying hypo (co-dominant) can be het right? I didn't think you could have a boa that is het hypo?
 
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