Quote Originally Posted by rephibiankid View Post
Is normal dominate or recessive? Or what is it??? How come ALL (except anything het. for anything recessive) spiders are het. Normal, but NO normal can be het. Spider?? Why does the animal look the mutated gene if it has normal and that mutant gene in it? It acts recessive when combined with a dominate or co. dom. morph right? But then when mixed with a real recessive morph it acts dominate.

If you don't understand what I’m saying I’ll use an example... Okay so use spider. A spider has 2 genes affecting its skin right: 1 spider gene, 1 normal gene...Okay so why does it look spider if normal isn’t recessive its supposedly dominate isn’t it? (Or maybe it isn’t, maybe I missed something major??) Okay and it won’t mix to make a new morph, like combining a pinstripe and a spider will mix to make a spinner. But then when you have, let’s say a normal het. Pied, it has: 1 pied gene, 1 normal gene right? Okay so then in this case it acts dom. or co. dom.????!?!??!?!??!?!


Maybe I’m thinking to hard but this has really been bugging me and I need to know and can’t find any where that talks about normals here or anywhere!
If someone wants to respond and clear me up it'd make my day thanks!
Normal quite simply means looking like the majority of wild Ball Pythons. Its also called wild type. The part that you are missing is that there is more than one gene that makes a BP look normal. A mutation in one gene will make an albino a mutation in another gene will make an axanthic (having two of the mutant genes in this case because these morphs are recessive). Because these mutations are for different genes (alleles) you can have a morph that has more than one mutation like an albino and axanthic makes a snow.

So to put it another way. A spider has the mutant gene that makes it a spider but it has the normal genes at other alleles so its not an albino or an axanthic.