Genetics....

[Daigga]

I should have clarified what I meant by "het lesser/mojave". That is a ball python that has a gene pair made up of one lesser gene and one mojave gene. It is a visual het, not a normal-looking het.

Both the lesser gene and the mojave gene are codominant to the NORMAL gene. Comparing the lesser with the mojave gene is a whole new ball game. The relationships with the normal gene are irrelevant because the normal gene is not included in the new comparison.

A ball python with two lesser genes is blue-eyed leucistic.
A ball python with a lesser gene paired with a mojave gene is also blue-eyed leucistic. It looks like a ball python with two lesser genes.
A ball python with two mojave genes is nearly leucistic but has some pigment on the top of the head and neck.

That matches the definitions of a dominant and a recessive gene. The lesser gene is dominant to the mojave gene, and the and the mojave gene is recessive to the lesser gene.

The pinstripe gene is dominant to the normal gene because a snake with a pinstripe gene paired with a normal gene looks like a snake with two pinstripe genes. See the parallel?

This is not exactly true. We classify ball python morphs by their genetic dominance, not their visual dominance. while you could say that visually one gene is recessive to another, we will have a very long and non productive discussion if you mean to classify every ball python gene in relation to any other gene.