I have a question about Spider BPs

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Originally Posted by muddoc

I am not correcting you, because that was a good description. However, the use of the word super is only used when talking about snake genetics. It is not actually a genetic term, and I think it is why people get confused about how genetics work.

Co-dominant (or incomplete dominant) is actually defined as an inheritable trait in which the heterozygous form looks different than normal and the Homozygous form is different than the heterozygous form. As I said, you are not wrong, I just want people to understand that a super is really a homozygous animal.

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I totally agree! thanks for the clarification. I think these terms would be different if social attitudes were different about the word 'homo'.
I find it sad how that little word, when used correctly, could avoid so much confusion and streamline the learncurve for people new to genetics, but instead is avoided in common usage.

so what your saying is that the spider genetics now of just a regular spider is heterozygous and that two put together would potentially creat a homozygous individual (super spider) but it would look the same but produce more spiders than the het form? sry just making sure i understand.

The vast majority and perhaps all spiders seen so far have the heterozygous genotype at the spider locus. Without knowing if the rumors of a proven homozygous spider are true and if so what that spider is like we still can't say for sure if spider is a dominant or a co-dominant mutation. It may be both true that the homozygous form has not proved to be different from the heterozygous form and that it has not been proven to be the same. I think we are close to 20 years since the original spider was imported so hopefully are getting close to having enough info to call its mutation type.