codominant or dominant spiders

[littleindiangirl]

so what morph is truely dominant? the normal wild type?

Good question.

And it's very muddy waters.

When I think of dominant, I think in terms of this gene is dominant over another gene, or a recessive gene.

When I think of codominant, I think of the same thing, but in the sense that only one copy is needed for the full expression of the gene. (heterozygous)

(I could very well have codominant and dominant wrong)

When I think of incomplete dominant, I always think of the partial expression when heterozygous, and complete expression when homozygous.

I know, I'm terrible about explaining terminology, so usually when it gets ugly in these threads, I leave them alone from sheer exhaustion at trying to get people to understand simple inheritance VS. dominant/recessive expressions.