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Slateman
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b]Question 27[/b]
In the wild, you can see hatchlings from the same clutch with completely different colouring.Sometimes some of them are intergrades and some are not. What is the reason for this?
Right answer 27 is;
Southy
the reason is that many australian pythons overlap one another, eg you won't go to gosford area and just find diamonds, coastals are there aswell, childrens and macs overlap aswell. what happens is when it comes to breeding, they are in many ways apart of the same family and will happily mate with each other. thus giving us intergrades but with some looking more diamond, some more carpet and some mixed togther.
people wanting to keep colours that there snake has will breed it to pass those genes on, the growth of albino carpets and olives in austrlia over the years started with one albino. if in the wild an albino and a normal coloured snake mated. some come out like one parent and the others cross between both parents.
robbo
hi slateman
my answer for question 27 is
i am guessing you are talking about carpet and diamond pythons , so my answer is some can be intergrades and some not because the female python can retain sperm from multiple partners to fertilize her eggs
junglemad
The reason for this is that the hatchlings share genetic material from both parents and indeed genetic history from the forebears of both parents. If for example one parent was a coastal carpet and one parent was a diamond python then the clutch would include snakes that appear carpet or diamond or a mixture of both. If one parent was coastal or diamond and the other was an intergrade then the resultant progeny would be mixtures even more complicated and so forth. If a grandfather was an intergrade perhaps his characteristics skipped a generation.
To further complicate things some female snakes have multiple partners, particularly diamond pythons. A gravid female may contain eggs fertilised by different fathers.
Robbo 3
Junglemad 3
Southy3
score after 27th round.
steve6610 1
JandC_Reptiles 52
craig.a.c 1
OuZo 3
soulweaver 13
staffsrule 23 and half
Dicco 9 and half
danep 5
munkee 1
newtosnakes 2
jonno 1
southy 53.5
junglemad 60
westaussie 1
olivehydra 10
BUCK 1
Memphis_Tank 1
robbo 44.5
Kahn_10 3
Antaresia Lady 3.5
This people are leading Southern Cross Reptile Competition on APS
Leaders of comp so far:
1. junglemad 60
2. southy 53.5
3. JandC_Reptiles 52
4. robbo 44.5
5. staffsrule 23.5
New question 28.
Why we call Children python Children Python?
Please answer by Wednesday evening24.05.06 to email [email protected][/size]
Please don't post your answers here.
In the wild, you can see hatchlings from the same clutch with completely different colouring.Sometimes some of them are intergrades and some are not. What is the reason for this?
Right answer 27 is;
Southy
the reason is that many australian pythons overlap one another, eg you won't go to gosford area and just find diamonds, coastals are there aswell, childrens and macs overlap aswell. what happens is when it comes to breeding, they are in many ways apart of the same family and will happily mate with each other. thus giving us intergrades but with some looking more diamond, some more carpet and some mixed togther.
people wanting to keep colours that there snake has will breed it to pass those genes on, the growth of albino carpets and olives in austrlia over the years started with one albino. if in the wild an albino and a normal coloured snake mated. some come out like one parent and the others cross between both parents.
robbo
hi slateman
my answer for question 27 is
i am guessing you are talking about carpet and diamond pythons , so my answer is some can be intergrades and some not because the female python can retain sperm from multiple partners to fertilize her eggs
junglemad
The reason for this is that the hatchlings share genetic material from both parents and indeed genetic history from the forebears of both parents. If for example one parent was a coastal carpet and one parent was a diamond python then the clutch would include snakes that appear carpet or diamond or a mixture of both. If one parent was coastal or diamond and the other was an intergrade then the resultant progeny would be mixtures even more complicated and so forth. If a grandfather was an intergrade perhaps his characteristics skipped a generation.
To further complicate things some female snakes have multiple partners, particularly diamond pythons. A gravid female may contain eggs fertilised by different fathers.
Robbo 3
Junglemad 3
Southy3
score after 27th round.
steve6610 1
JandC_Reptiles 52
craig.a.c 1
OuZo 3
soulweaver 13
staffsrule 23 and half
Dicco 9 and half
danep 5
munkee 1
newtosnakes 2
jonno 1
southy 53.5
junglemad 60
westaussie 1
olivehydra 10
BUCK 1
Memphis_Tank 1
robbo 44.5
Kahn_10 3
Antaresia Lady 3.5
This people are leading Southern Cross Reptile Competition on APS
Leaders of comp so far:
1. junglemad 60
2. southy 53.5
3. JandC_Reptiles 52
4. robbo 44.5
5. staffsrule 23.5
New question 28.
Why we call Children python Children Python?
Please answer by Wednesday evening24.05.06 to email [email protected][/size]
Please don't post your answers here.
