LOL. I'm 49 and way past taking a basic bio class although I'd love too. I'm a professional geologist and an environmental attorney so genetics is definitely not my thing.
However, with that wonderful response, I think it clicked. I was linking the matter of recessive, dominant and co-dominant with Het and Hom. I didn't get that the genetics of a BP are due to recessive, co-dominant and dominant genes but also to whether the parents are het/hom. I see now that you have to look at both whether it is a recessive, co-dominant or dominant gene (singular) and whether it is a het or a Hom.
Let me try it out just to make sure. The only way one parent will in 100% probability make babies like itself is if it is Hom and mates with another similar one that is hom. All four genes the same....and...it doesn't matter if it is co-dominant or dominant. That will only affect whether it is the co-dominant form or super form visually. Is this correct? If so, all I need to figure out now is how one tells whether an animal is het or hom?
Thanks to everyone for taking the time to educate me on this.
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