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Originally Posted by Ricko

gravid= pregnant, got eggs. and het means hetorozygus (<---spelling??) for something in the case of olivesits het for albino. i hope i got that second part right.

Heterozygous or 'het' means it carries the gene,(say for albinism) as a recessive trait but doesn't show it! Cross 2 hets and you get 25% normal, 25% homozygous = Show (Albino etc) and 50% are also hets.

Homozygous means the trait is dominant and therefore would be albino in this case!

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