By the way, you have to be careful when talking genetics with herpers. Many have only learned herper pseudogenetics lingo. In particular, "dominant" and "codominant" have different meanings in standard genetics and herper pseudogenetics.



In herper pseudogenetics, a heterozygous (AKA "het" ) snake has a mutant gene paired with a normal gene and looks normal. In standard genetics, such a snake is heterozygous for a recessive mutant gene.



In herper pseudogenetics, a codominant snake has a mutant gene paired with a normal gene and does not look normal. In standard genetics, such a snake is heterozygous for a dominant or codominant mutant gene.



In herper pseudogenetics, a dominant snake has the same mutant gene as in the codominant snake. Except the dominant snake has a pair of the mutant genes rather than one mutant paired with one normal gene. In standard genetics, such a snake is homozygous for a dominant or codominant mutant gene.



Paul Hollander

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