BALL PYTHON GENETICS
BALL PYTHON GENETICS
Ball Pythons, like all animals that reproduce sexually (as opposed to asexually), receive half of their genetic makeup from each of their parents. Each gamete (female egg before fertilization) and each sperm carry half of that parent’s genetic material. When the gamete is fertilized by the sperm, a zygote (fertilized egg) is formed which now contains the chromosome halves from each parent. This recombining of genes results in predictable but distinctly different outcomes.