How are they different. I have looked at the Boa genetics and they are the same and a ball python. They have Dominate, co dominate, and recessive traits. The only difference that I find is that with boa's there are many different locals that have different morphs. Also boa's use names for morphs that are the same as bp's but completely different. Example of this is ghost. In boa's hypo is used to describe what we would call ghost in bp's.