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female genes passed on?
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I have read on several sites that the female does not pass on het genes, that they have to be visual's to pass on any genes. Can any one clear this up for me???
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9/4/2009 3:47:33 PM
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9/4/2009 4:00:36 PM
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anaconda6769
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I am trying to remember where I read it, VMSherp talks a little about it in their Genetics 501 article but that is not exactly what I was looking 4
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9/4/2009 4:08:25 PM
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Floof
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I highly doubt that. Breeding a het female to a het male will produce visuals, so why wouldn't a female pass on a het gene even without the male's contribution? -shrug-
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9/4/2009 4:10:07 PM
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Floof
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I highly doubt that. Breeding a het female to a het male will produce visuals, so why wouldn't a female pass on a het gene even without the male's contribution? -shrug-
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9/4/2009 7:33:19 PM
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9/4/2009 10:17:11 PM
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natsamjosh
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Hmmmm, can you cite some of these sites? No disrespect meant, but what you are saying doesn't really make sense.
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9/4/2009 10:27:34 PM
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natsamjosh
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Just to add a little to what I said above, each parent passes one of it's two alleles (for a particular gene pair) to the offspring. If the mother is a het, that means one of the two alleles is mutated. So there's a 50/50 chance that the mutated allele will get passed on to the offspring by the mother. Same thing with the father.
Not sure what you mean when you say it has to be a visual to pass on any genes. Each parent has to pass on its genes, unless there's some asexual reproduction going on!
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9/5/2009 3:24:26 AM
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bwaffa
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Not sure what you read, but as you've written it that statement doesn't hold any water. There are certain traits which are said to be "sex-linked," that is they're inherently related to the sex of the organism because of the trait's location on a sex chromosome... but that doesn't sound like what's being discussed here.
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9/5/2009 7:52:48 AM
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natsamjosh
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"that doesn't sound like what's being discussed here."
That's why I said what I said, Brad. Normally "het" is used for traits like albinism, anerythrism, etc, not
"sex-link" traits. Thanks for the unnecessary criticism, though.
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9/5/2009 10:07:45 AM
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Kingsnake King
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natsamjosh: asexual reproduction is possible in komodo dragons the female will deposit eggs with out any males and all the off spring will be male to ensure breeding at a later point. google it its awsome to read. and a weird fact ( not ment to insult jjust more info to have)
If female hets didnt pass on there genes, there would be no visuable morphs at all if you sit and think about it. and I breed het albino kingsnakes all the time and my male is the albino and the female is the het if she didnt pass that gene on i wouldnt have albino babies ..............good topic..............I have also read on some websites the very samething and boy did I get confused .....
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9/5/2009 11:45:22 AM
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bwaffa
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Ed, my response was to the original question and not to your reply or anything discussed therein. When I said "that doesn't sound like what's being discussed here" I meant that the original disseminaters of this misinformation were probably just misinformed about the process of simple recessive inheritance and not trying to explain the dynamics of sex-linkage which are rarely discussed in herpetoculture.
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9/5/2009 1:54:47 PM
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anaconda6769
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Thanks to the two of you I split the points with,actually that is what was being discussed,but I am a NEWB and have been reading so much information sometimes it just gets all jumbled up in there! I think I actually found the site if you are interested (VMSHERP) I am sure as experienced as you all are you know the site! If you go to I think Genetics 501 or 601 it talks about it some. I believe there was another site though that was trying to provide the same info in simpler terms and they may have screwed it up ?! Thanks again for all the responses.
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9/5/2009 11:21:10 PM
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natsamjosh
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Hey Brad,
Sorry, I had a brain fart and misinterpreted what you said. Sorry about that!
Ed
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