Het albino retic question

[lady_bug87]

So for all us remedial kids in class... What makes something a super and why do they die?

[Aaron_S]

Originally Posted by lady_bug87

So for all us remedial kids in class... What makes something a super and why do they die?

I told you you can have a lesson whenever! Coffee would suffice instead of dinner :P

They die, for unknown reasons. It's on a genetic level. For whatever reason to gene expressed twice in the same animal somehow makes them less "hardy". There may be some explanation but I have yet to read it and would be most curious.

What makes the super is the expression of the two genes in the same animal at once. So take mojaves for example. When expressed as the incomplete dominant (or co-dom for most people) they show the morph as we know it. When bred together we produce a white snake. That's the "super form". What confuses other people more is that there are other genes that reside on the same allele. They look different on the incomplete dominant level but when bred to another one they produce the same "super form". In this instance we can take mojave breed it to a lesser and make white snakes.

Also, if anyone doesn't know alleles. Think of it as genetic trees. If you have a gene on the same tree but just a different branch (different colour/pattern) they will produce the same or very similar "super" forms.

[lady_bug87]

Originally Posted by Aaron_S

I told you you can have a lesson whenever! Coffee would suffice instead of dinner :P

They die, for unknown reasons. It's on a genetic level. For whatever reason to gene expressed twice in the same animal somehow makes them less "hardy". There may be some explanation but I have yet to read it and would be most curious.

What makes the super is the expression of the two genes in the same animal at once. So take mojaves for example. When expressed as the incomplete dominant (or co-dom for most people) they show the morph as we know it. When bred together we produce a white snake. That's the "super form". What confuses other people more is that there are other genes that reside on the same allele. They look different on the incomplete dominant level but when bred to another one they produce the same "super form". In this instance we can take mojave breed it to a lesser and make white snakes.

Also, if anyone doesn't know alleles. Think of it as genetic trees. If you have a gene on the same tree but just a different branch (different colour/pattern) they will produce the same or very similar "super" forms.

Ohhh that's why a cinamon x cinamon = super cinamon which is an all black? Snake...? Because it has 2 sets if the cinamon gene which makes the offspring black?

So Mojave x Mojave = a blue eyed leucy right? Which means that a Mojave X a lesser makes an ivory?

My head hurts. And I don't drink coffee...