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Does the sex make a differance?

Mowgli

Mowgli

Straight from The Jungle!
Now i've been reading about genetics, and i have a question :rolleyes:
Let's say i want to "make" som amels.. And i have 1 normal and 1 amel.. Dows it have something to say if its the male that is the amel and the female that is the normal, and the other way?
 
Nope, regardless of which is the normal and which is the amel, your babies would all be normals het for amel.

D80
 
Hi mowgli,

Dritz is right. All the babies from a pairing of normal x amel will be normal looking but will cary a copy of the amel gene...of course this is assuming the 2 snakes have no hidden genes.

If then 2-3 years down the line you bred a boy and a girl baby from the normal x amel clutch...statistics say that about 25% of your babies will hatch out as amels.

If you were to breed one of the babies with its amel parent, probablity would predict that 50% of the babies would be amel.

I hope this simple explination helps.

Have a look at some online genetics tutorials and you'll get a full description.
 
Sounds like you've been reading about sexlinkage. As far as we know, none of the mutant genes that have been found in corn snakes is sexlinked.
 
Drizzt80 said:
Nope, regardless of which is the normal and which is the amel, your babies would all be normals het for amel.

D80
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Heh, I agree except I'd say that given how common the amel gene is, you're probably more likely to hatch some amels in the first generation than not. ;)
 
Serpwidgets said:
Heh, I agree except I'd say that given how common the amel gene is, you're probably more likely to hatch some amels in the first generation than not. ;)
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Thanks for pointing that out Serp! :rolleyes: I was going to add that to my post, about the possibilities of being het anyway, and then thought different of it. Didn't want to add too much information at one time. :) Besides, I knew I'd have you backin' me up!

D80
 
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