In pure genetics terms, outside of this industry, it would be a "2 gene" morph.



A gene is the single unit of heredity. Humans and Ball pythons have 2 copies of each gene, called an allele, only one of which they can pass on. For instance, sex chromosomes carry many of the same genes, but the X chromosome carries the female alleles of those genes and the Y chromosome carries the male alleles of those genes.



A Killerbee being a Super Pastel Spider means its genes would be expressed(as an example):

PP - Two Pastel alleles, which is dominant *relative to the normal gene (which would be a lower case "p"

Ss - One Spider allele, which is also dominant to normal, "s"



Therefore the animal is only carrying two morph genes, and two alleles of each gene.



However, that is not how most people here will interpret the terms "genes" and "alleles".
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Lincoln, NE

Ball Pythons - 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly

2.1 Normals

Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae

Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

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