Quote Originally Posted by MrLang View Post
Technically a Cinnamon IS heterozygous for cinnamon and super is homozygous for cinnamon. Since it's a co-dominant mutation this just means the heterozygous genotype expresses the phenotype. They are still both heterozygous (1 copy) and homozygous (2 copies). The difference with a recessive gene is just that it only expresses the phenotype when it is homozygous in genotype.
that is correct, but in the common usage of words there is no such thing as a "100% het cinnamon" because the word "het" is only ever used when talking about recessives. There is a heterozygous cinnamon called a cinnamon, but there is no "het cinnamon", because that would imply that you get a cinnamon by breeding two normal looking "het cinnamon" together. and thats not correct.

its linguistics, but strictly speaking "het" is a different word with a different meaning and different common usage compared to the more precise "heterozygous". "hets" are supposed to look normal, maybe with some kind of markers maybe without. You can find a context where it makes sense to talk about a "heterozygous spider", but the term "100% het spider" never makes sense.