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Old 20-Aug-06, 06:41 PM
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Re: RE: gravid, hets ect please explain???

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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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