The Glorious Punnet Square

If you find the whole genetics side of things daunting, a punnet square can be extremely beneficial. They are mainly used to help with predicting offspring and definetly simplifies all my ranting about recessive pairings. To create one for a single gene pairing, put four boxes together to create one big box. Represent the dominant genes with captital letters and recessive genes with lowercase letters. They must be in pairs of two, for example, an albino animal would be aa and a normal het albino would be Na. Do the same thing with the other animal on the left side, and then it becomes almost a sort of math problem. Think of it like a multiplication table at school. There should be one letter over each box, and one to the left of each box on the left. Put each letter in the boxes across of them on the left and below them from the top. The result is the babies that will be produced be the pairing, and the percent chance of them being produced. Each box is a 25% chance. This isnt very easy to explain, but the picture at the bottom should help. Let the capital A represent normal, and the lowercase a represent albino. The result is 25% normals, 50% normal het albinos, and 25% visual albinos, or NN, Na, Na, aa.