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Just a litte more info on genetics.
Phenotype - The observable physical and/or biochemical characteristics of the expression of a gene; the clinical presentation of an individual with a particular genotype
Genotype - The genetic constitution of an organism or cell; also refers to the specific set of alleles inherited at a locus
So basically, phenotype is the appearance and genotype is the genetics. Phenotype is the morph itself (normal, albino, pastel, etc...). Genotype is either heterozygous or homozygous for a certain gene. When looking at a combination of a given morph gene, you have homozygous normal genotype, heterozygous normal + morph genotype, and homozygous morph genotype.
For recessive genes (such as albino and pied), both the homozygous normal genotype and heterogyzous normal + morph genotype have the normal phenotype, whereas only the homozygous morph genotype is the morph phenotype.
For codominant and incomplete dominant genes (such as pastel), the homozygous normal genotype has a normal phenotype, the heterozygous normal + morph genotype is the regular morph phenotype, and the homozygous morph genotype is the super morph phenotype.
For dominant genes (such as spider, as far as we know), the homozygous normal genotype has a normal phenotype, and both the heterozygous normal + morph genotype and the homozygous morph genotype are the morph phenotype. Therefore, there is no super morph phenotype.
Hope that clears a few things up.
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