Hi Julie,
'Het' is short of the term heterozygous. A het animal is an animal that
carries (but does not express) a recessive gene. Since tangerine is not
recessive, I'd have to say the fellow who contacted you was right. However,
since they NEVER carried the deception phase, I'd say that's incorrect as
well - but probably a good thing. ;)
Anyone else have any input?
Jen
> Hi Genetics buffs,
>
> I have some geckos from tangerine parents I called het. for tangerine. A
> gentleman wrote me to tell me that was not correct with an explanation
> tangerines cannot produce hets. I was satisified with his explanation,
> however, it occured to me that, before I made any changes to what I
> called these geckos, I should check with gex listers. What's the story?
>
> I decided, since I did not change the names fast enough for this person,
> who then accused me of outright deception in advertising, to give them
> different names - see the Group 11s on my leopard gecko online store!
> ;-)
>
> Julie Bergman
> http://www.geckoranch.com
> GGA lifetime member
>
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