Genetics confusion

[OhhWatALoser]

Ok....this is MY understanding of how this terminology is typically used in the ball python morph world.

The term "het albino" is just a shortened version of "heterozygous for albino".

Therefore, the term "het lesser" would have the same connotation, "heterozygous for lesser".

And given the utter confusion on the matter, no matter which side of the argument a person is on, why should "het" be used in reference to lessers (and other dom/co-dom morphs) in the first place? Applying the term "het" in such a redundant fashion IS confusing. You don't call an albino a "super albino" or a "homo albino". It's just an albino.

The terminology we typically use isn't "correct" on many accounts (co-dom vs incomplete dom), but majority of people using it makes it correct now doesn't it? I see this as another case. Technically Het for Albino is not correct at all, it is het albino. Heterozygous is an adjective. Its like saying "My snake is a pretty for albino" vs "My snake is a pretty albino"

We take it as them meaning the same thing (we both agree on that), but why use the funny sounding long version? Popularity I guess. I understand none of us here started using it that way and many people say it but still..... to me it seem we are implying het means something other than heterozygous. I see that as just complicating things for those who want to learn what is actually going on. No i'm not going to go to a show and sell my het lessers, its not the popular terminology but it doesn't make het lesser incorrect.

I'm not on a mission to "be right", I would just like to see this stuff get easier instead of more complicated. Theres hardly a difference between the genotype names and phenotype names we are calling them in this thread.

Heres a translator....
obviously theres a few odds balls like lucys and what not, but that sums up most of them. They don't have to be separate things and we can still keep the short phenotype names, but popular terminology seems to be heading toward them being separate and I see that causing more confusion.