How Do 'Hets' Work?

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Think of DNA like a ladder split in half down the middle. Each morph is a rung on that ladder. When the rungs match up you get the homozygous form when they are miss matched you get the het version. The way the rung looks is the "phenotype" and the position of the rung on the ladder is the "Allele"

So a Lesser and a mojave are different phenotypes but since they are on the same position on the ladder you get a super..


Like this

well yea you can go and use pictures and stuff too take the easy way out ;P