het...?

Isn't het for multiple genes, homozygous is carrying one...?

I'm sure someone can explain it better but het is used for animals carrying only one half of a pair of genes required to produce a recessive trait. I.e. pied, albino, and clown. The visual of these are homozygous when you can see the example of the morph. When you breed a visual recessive morph to an animal not carring the trait you get 100% het offspring because they all get 1 copy of the trait from the visual parent. They have to have two copies of the gene to show the trait.

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Originally Posted by Capray

Isn't het for multiple genes, homozygous is carrying one...?

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to keep it short an simple. genes come in pairs of two.

het is short of heterozygous, it means you have two genes that are not the same sitting next to each other
homozygous means you have the same genes sitting next to each other.

heterozygous bp's would be pastels, lessers, het clowns, het albino. you have 1 morph gene and 1 non-morph gene sitting together
where homozygous would be super pastel, blue eye'd lucy, clowns, albinos. you have two of the same morph genes sitting together

in ball python lingo, besides a few cases, het is only talked about when dealing with recessive genes, because in the heterozygous form, you cannot see the gene (het clown, het albino). With dominant and co-dominant gene you can visually see the heterozygous form, so we just call them by their name (pastel, lesser)

See I knew someone could explain it better. Lol ^^^
Thanks