What would you get if you bred an albino and a regular burmese python?

Question

just out of curiosity because i have a female albino, and a male regular brown and black burmese. would i get something like a piebald python or would a dominant trait take over and just have some albino and some regular?

Answer 1

If Albinism in snakes is a simple recessive gene, then it's possible to determine the likely outcome if you know the genetic makeup of the non-albino parent. If it's straight-up Mendelian inheritance (and I'm not sure it is), there's two possibilities for it. Either it has two copies of "normal" snake-coloring genes (call that AA), or it has one normal and one "albino" gene (call this aA). Your albino snake has one possibility (aa). Crossing those gives you two possible outcomes...

Cross 1 (AA x aa) = all offspring are (Aa - non-albino, but carry the albino gene)

Cross 2 (Aa x aa) = 50% are (Aa), 50% are (aa - albino)

You need to know the genetic makeup of your normal-looking snake in order to figure out which scenario you will get when you breed your snakes. If your normal-looking snake has one albino parent, then it's (Aa), because it came from a cross like cross 1 above. If both of your normal-colored snake's parents are normal-colored, then it's impossible to tell. So there's two possibilities, either your babies will be all norma-colored, or the litter will be half-and-half. What you should probably do is breed them and find out... if there is even one albino offspring from this cross, then you can determine the genetic makeup of the normal-colored parent - it has to be (Aa). If all the babies come out normal-colored, you can't be sure.

Two albinos will produce only albino offspring. Again, this is all assuming that albinism in snakes is caused by a single Mendelian-style gene. I do not think that albinism is sex-linked, so the sex of the parents shouldn't matter. You could Google it, since I'm sure someone somewhere has figured out the inheritance of this trait, but I gave you the basics.

Answer 2

You would just have normal Burmese pythons, but on rare occasions you will get a few albino babies, though, this is almost impossible. The normal babies would be a het of an albino since they will not show any traits of the albino gene. If you bred two albinos you would get 100% albinos because you did not breed two different morphs so the babies will still have the albino traits. If you bred an albino and a het for albino there is a result in possible albino hatchlings rather than breeding a normal with an albino.

Answer 3

Albino would be a recessive gene. So unless the regular burmese python is heterogenous recessive to the albino gene, then you would probably end up with a regular colored python 95% of the time. Not a geneticist but that's what I remember from science class.

Answer 4

For sure you would get 'baby pythons' ... and you should, if you could keep breeding them regularly, get the same percentage of albino pythons to the same percentage of 'regular pythons' ... but to get the 'piebald python' you would have to find at least a little of the 'piebald markings' in four unrelated pythons, then mate them two and two and let their 'spotted' babies' mate again ... so to get a 'true color variation' you should have at least 100 pythons that you could breed in twos, and mix the twos every time, but when you bred the babies you'd have to be sure that none of any of the four parents were the same in both the babies. It could take up to 40 years, but eventually you would consistently get 'piebald pythons' ...

Answer 5

OK here we go in lay mans terms...

normal x albino breeding = 100% normal appearing , however they are all 100% het for albinism...all offspring carry the albino gene

Then when you breed two 100% hets together you will get 25% albinos 25% normal with no albino gene and 50% that are normal but carry the albino gene (het)

Cheers

Answer 6

havent u ever takin a biology class? do a punnet square and u will see the cances of getting an albino or regular