Quote Originally Posted by AaronP View Post
When referring to a "Super" form a Super is the Homozygous form of a mutation.

Calling a BEL a Homozygous animal is only correct when both parents were the same mutation (Mojave to Mojave, Lesser to Lesser, etc etc).

A Mojave to a Lesser = BEL is simply a combo, unfortunately (to some) the combo results in a white snake. BEL is just a general name for a ball python that is lacking all pigment to the point where it is white and its eyes appear to be blue.
The problem with our disagreement is that there is no real definition for super form. Its not a genetics term so much as a herp term. The term was created to describe a visual difference in a homozygous form of a codominant animal for sure but I would argue that it could be correctly applied to a BEL. The animal definitely keeps with the spirit of the term by having an appearance that differs greatly from its parents. But regardless of whether you believe that or not I am going to need you to either concede my point or else take the BEL out of the list you provided in a previous post as quoted here

Quote Originally Posted by AaronP View Post
What's does a Albino, Hypo, Piebald, BEL, Super Phantom, and Ivory have in common? They're all Homozygous forms of their Heterozygous counter parts. There is a reason why people say that Yellow Bellies are Het Ivory. There are "Normals" out there that are Het Luecistic, Vin Russo is just a poor example that I used. I'll dig up the RR show and cut out the clip for you guys to listen to when I get a chance tonight/tomorrow night.
A BEL does not necessarily have anything in common with an Albino other than the fact that they look the way they do because of two genes at a particular locus. It could have two separate genes that express a phenotype that is very similar to the super form of either of those genes.

Oh yeah and still waiting for that example of a normal that's het for luecistic