PLEASE EXPLAIN GENETICS PLEASE

[whkrazyk]

IM CONFUSED, I DONT KNO HOW TO FIGURE OUT GENETICS AND HETS. LIKE IF I MATE A BLIZZARD HET. BLAZING BLIZZARD X A REG. BLILLARD HET. TREMPER, WOULD THAT MEAN THE THE WHOLE CLUTCH WOULD BE 50% HET BLAZING, AND 50% HET TREMPER, CAN SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME?

 

[Sunrise Reptile]

OK, I'm not so good at percentages but I'll give this the ol' "college try"! :main_laugh:

The pairing you explained is actually Blizzard het Tremper x Blizzard het Tremper. The reason I say this is because a Blazing Blizzard is simply a leo that is expressing two genetic traits visually (also known as homozygous). Those traits being Blizzard and Tremper Albino, so long as we're talking about a Tremper Blazing Blizzard. So your Blizzard het Blazing can also be called Blizzard het Tremper (assuming we're talking Tremper strain).

Now then, your pairing should produce the following:

25% Blazing Blizzards
25% Blizzards het Tremper
25% Tremper het Blizzard
25% Normals het Blizzard and Tremper

 

[whkrazyk]

OK THANK YOU, WHAT IF ONE WAS A DEF. HET. LIKE BELL ENIGMA HET. RAPTOR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND HOW DID U COME UP WITH THE %'S, THANK YOU UR AWSOME

 

[paulnj]

Turn of caps......

 

[Nigel4less]

Turn off caps......

I would second that :main_yes:.... then I could try and help you out since it wouldn't be such an eyesore.

 

[whkrazyk]

sorry, it helps people like me who cant see good it says
"Im confused, i dont kno how to figure out genetics and hets. like if i mate a blizzard het. blazing x a blizzard het. tremper, i dont understand how to do percentages, and try and figure out what i will get with what pairs, and how to make a certain morph of leo a certain color, please help

 

[paulnj]

blizzard het blazing could be het tremper or rainwater, but we will go with blizzard het tremper blazing.

both animals are actually blizzard het tremper blazing, so mating them gives you 100% blizzards(blizzard X blizzard). From there het tremper x het tremper gives 25% trempers, 25% non het tremper, and 50% het tremper. That translates to .

25% tremper blazing blizzard
75% blizzard 66% het tremper blazing because 2 out of 3 animals statisticly are het tremper, while one isn't.

color is line bred usually but blizzard can't get tangerine because the blizzard gene blocks coloring traits.

 

[whkrazyk]

do you kno any websites or anything that i can study and read on that will explain how i can tally all those percentages up? thanx paul

 

[Nigel4less]

I would recommend getting the Complete Ball Python by Kevin McCurley(It has a Fantastic genetics section which applies to all reptiles) or the Herpetoculture of Leopard Geckos by Ron Tremper.

 

[shadowx362]

everyone explained it quite well or gave other resource's, but if your having a hard time seeing I would press CTRL and + at the same time till your conferable with the size or you can go to your web browser settings and select a bigger default font.
Hope that helped ,
Edgar

 

[supperl]

basically you only need to know a few things:
rezessive trait:
het*normal= 50% he and 50% normal offsprings
het*het= 25% homo, 50% het and 25% normal offsprings
het*homo= 50% homo and 50% het offsprings
homo*homo= 100% homo
het means genetype(only one gen hidden in the genetics)
homo means phänotype(2 genes and you can see the trait on the gecko)
Example here is the Albino.

Co-Dominant their you have a normal and a superform.
You can see the trait in the phänotype with only 1 gen(remember on the rezessive traits you couldn´t see this).
Basically it is the same way as with the rezessive traits just that you can see the trait on het animals and the homo version is the Superform.
Example here is the Mack Snow trait and Mack Snow as het version with one gen and the Mack Super Snow with 2 gens as homo version.

And than you have the Dominant traits. These are fairly easy. To make it easy, pairing a gecko with a dominant trait to something else will give you 50% with the dominant trait and 50% without the trait.

And now you only need to know what kind of trait the morphs you are working with are and you have the solution.
For more than one morph you just combine them.

Example:
Mack Snow Enigma het Albino*Mack Super Snow Albino
Enigme*else = 50% Enigma 50% normal
Mack Snow(het)*Mack Super Snow(homo)= 50% Mack Snow and 50% Mack Super Snow
het Albino*Albino= 50% het Albino and 50% Albino

Now Combining them. We will go for the Chance to get a MSSAE:
Only 50% will be Enigma and from these 50% only 50% will be MSS so we have 25% MSSE. From these 25% MSSE again only 50% will be Albinos so we have Chance of 12,5% for a MSSAE

I hope you understood

 

[whkrazyk]

thanx guys, im begging to see the pattern, i will deff. pick up the books ya'll recommended, thanks for all your help....kyle

 

[supperl]

you could also use the geneticswizard again all you need to know it which morph is which kind of trait.
Albino - rezessive <-- example^^

 

[bohannbj]

Just use this to get percentages.
http://www.changbioscience.com/genetics/punnett.html

 

[malt_geckos]

Just to make it a little less confusing... Blazing= Tremper albino or Rainwater Albino...

 

[Lady_Kiya]

You could also go to Leopardgeckowiki.com
I found this to be a lot of help.
I still do not understand everything, but its clearer as I read on.

 

[Lady_Kiya]

Recessive is something a gecko is rarely born with. It is not something that is line bred.
Line bred means it is greated using certain pairings. I believe albinos because they are recessive are capable of having one strain of DNA and the trait will be visable in the offspring?

 

[Halley]

http://www.geckosetc.com/htm/genetics.htm

http://www.vmsherp.com/LCGenetics101.htm
http://www.vmsherp.com/LCGenetics201.htm
http://www.vmsherp.com/LCGenetics301.htm
http://www.vmsherp.com/LCGenetics401.htm
http://www.vmsherp.com/LCGenetics501.htm
http://www.vmsherp.com/LCGenetics601.htm