First, please do not take my last post as an attack I did not intend it that way.

I think you have the basic understanding but you seem to be on the edge of missunderstanding.

Using co-dominant to denote the possibility of a litters inheritance of a trait is just poor and improper use of the term. It appears to me that this is the most commonly confused and misused issue in the 'boa world' of genetics.

I can not see it as beneficial to use terms improperly because the original poster did not understand an aspect of genetics.

Hypos are heterozygous because they recieved only one mutant hypo gene from either their mother or father, not because they are indistinguishable from their homozygous siblings.

Hypo is a discription of a physical mutation.
Dominant is a discription of the way in which the genes that cause this mutation are inherited.
Heterozygous is a description of a pair of genes.

These are three very different aspects of genetics, complications occour when we blur them. When you think about genetics try to think of them in these three parts seperate from the other two.

Hope I helped clear things up and did not get you mad. If you would like to discuss further please email me, I love talking about genetics but dont want to hijack this post much more then I already have.
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