Quote Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser View Post
Het just means a pair of mismatched genes, not half a morph. Het bel and het lesser are the same thing. You basically have two names for the same gene in that sense. Your dealing with the heterozygous form of the gene. But if im looking at a at the alleles sitting there i call them lesser genes not het bel. While there technically nothing incorrect about besides we have many ways to make a bel, so i see it as less accurate.
Yes, I understand what it technically means. But please refer to the part of my post that I bolded. "As applied to ball python morph names"...the term "het" IMPLIES one half of a matched set. So if you say, "het lesser" you're implying that the animal has one half of the set needed to make a lesser.

I'm not disputing that a lesser is a heterozygous mutation. I'm just saying that I don't believe it is accurate to refer to the animal as "het lesser."