Super snow and blizzard

[frost1375]

If I breed a Super snow and a Midnight Blizzard, what would I get?

 

[eyelids]

Mack Snows het Blizzard..

 

[frost1375]

I forgot to mention that I'm dumb and I have no idea about the genetics and morphs and hets and stuff. I was just wondering what they would look like more or less. More like regular snows?

 

[Kotsay1414]

I forgot to mention that I'm dumb and I have no idea about the genetics and morphs and hets and stuff. I was just wondering what they would look like more or less. More like regular snows?

They would be regular Mack Snows... the het part does not show.

 

[okapi]

Het = heterozygous. for recessive genes, the trait is not expressed. For co-dom genes, the trait is half expressed. For dominant genes the trait is fully expressed.

Mack super snows are co-dom. in the het form they are mack snows. in the homozygous "super" form the trait is fully expressed because both parents gave the mack gene (and each single gene trait is composed of a pair of genes, with one from each parent).

Blizzards are recessive. If they have a non-blizzard gene paired with a blizzard gene in that one locus (DNA spot for a gene) then the dominant "normal" gene blocks the recessive blizzard gene. so a het blizzard looks normal.

Therefore a (het) super snow het blizzard would express half of the mack trait, and none of the blizzard trait. But will be carrying the gene.

 

[frost1375]

Thank you. I should sit down one day and really try to figure out geckos genes and stuff. It all just seems too much for me. lol.

 

[okapi]

No problem. The book "the herpetoculture of leopard geckos" is a good one. Then VMSherp.com has a book for sale, as well as a nice genetics section.

Basically just learn what morphs are recessive, what morphs are co-dom, what morphs are dominant, what morphs are polygenetic, and what morphs are combinations of the above.