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lizzardguy83
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when i look at all these geckos and the % hets and things like that i really dont under stand all of that could someone explain???:main_huh:
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Its the chance of it being het.
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djinn
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ok, so. I'll have to work this out as I go, so please bear with me.
If you have two geckos, male and female, both normal het for eclipse (or any recessive trait) then they'd have a genetic make up of eE.
Which, I should state, is just the way I signify recessive traits, with the lower case first, so I hope its not wrong.
If you've worked with punnet squares it makes everything easier.
But they'd be set up like this
... e E
e ee eE
E eE EE
which, if lowercase is not having the trait, and upper case is the trait,
then you have 25% which will be eclipse, 50% het eclipse, and 25% which don't carry the trait at all.
But you can't tell the 50% that are hets from the 25% of the offspring that won't be het by sight, you'd have to raise them and prove their het through breeding.
So you'd have to say that of the offspring 75% will not show the trait, only 2/3 of those would be het for it, the other 1/3 not being so.
So they'd be 66% chance of being het for Eclipse.
I hope that's correct, I'm sure someone will show me better if not.
If you have two geckos, male and female, both normal het for eclipse (or any recessive trait) then they'd have a genetic make up of eE.
Which, I should state, is just the way I signify recessive traits, with the lower case first, so I hope its not wrong.
If you've worked with punnet squares it makes everything easier.
But they'd be set up like this
... e E
e ee eE
E eE EE
which, if lowercase is not having the trait, and upper case is the trait,
then you have 25% which will be eclipse, 50% het eclipse, and 25% which don't carry the trait at all.
But you can't tell the 50% that are hets from the 25% of the offspring that won't be het by sight, you'd have to raise them and prove their het through breeding.
So you'd have to say that of the offspring 75% will not show the trait, only 2/3 of those would be het for it, the other 1/3 not being so.
So they'd be 66% chance of being het for Eclipse.
I hope that's correct, I'm sure someone will show me better if not.
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lizzardguy83
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ok even with the same font i follow. so everyone breeding out there is just gambling for what ever it is they are breeding.
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