What are the odds?!

[Lubana]

Het is not just used to describe recessives. so that is not a good way to explain it.

Pastels are Hets too but they don't look like Normals...


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Het does not necessarily mean recessive.
Hetrozygous just means it carries one gene. It may or may not affect phenotype. But even some 'recessive' Hets do look different from non Hets.

Homozygous means it carries 2 of the same or similar gene.

Examples:
- albino has 2 albino genes
- Het albino has one albino and one normal gene

- pastel has one pastel gene and one normal gene
- super pastel has 2 pastel genes

- pied has 2 pied genes
- Het pied has one pied and one normal gene

- butter has one butter gene and one normal gene
- Super Butter has 2 butter genes.
- Butter Mojave Leucistic has 1 butter and 1 Mojave gene. But since both genes lie on the same genetic loci, they do make a homozygous form.

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Thank you for explaining further! Very interesting.