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An organism with the alleles BB would be homozygous dominant.

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What does a punett square show?

The chance of a particular trait being inherited. For each trait there are several alleles, some are dominant and others recessive, for example brown eyes are dominant over blue. The recessive phenotype can only have a genotype with both recessive alleles eg. bb The dominant phenotype can have a genotype with both dominant alleles eg. BB or one of each eg. Bb A punnet square shows the likelihood of a phenotype being inherited from given genotypes, alleles etc... BB and Bb makes BB BB Bb Bb All offspring will have the dominant phenotype (BB or Bb) eg. brown eyes Bb and Bb makes BB Bb Bb bb One in four of the offspring will have the recessive phenotype (bb) eg. blue eyes


What is the difference between dominant alleles and recessive alleles?

dominant-appears in first generation recessive-seems to dissapear


How do genetics indicate a dominate allele and a recessive allele?

I only have basic genetic knowledge, but I'm fairly certain that a dominant allele would be indicated by an uppercase letter and a recessive one would be indicated by a lower-case one. For example, the color bi-black would be indicated as "bb" for two recessive alleles, "Bb" for one, and "BB" for only dominant alleles. Make sense? :)


What happens to A trait controlled by a dominant gene?

yes, if two Bb parents have kids, there is a 3:1 ratio that their children will show a dominant trait (BB Bb Bb bb). For multiple alleles (3 or more) it gets a little more complicated. Some traits, like height, have 1000's of genes affecting them. Consult your biology teacher for more information.Yes. Because to have a dominant trait you can have two dominant alleles or just one dominant and one recessive (because a dominant allele negates the effect of a recessive allele.) To get a recessive trait it takes two recessive alleles as oppose to a dominant trait where it takes only 1 to have a dominant trait. Therefore Dominant traits are more common.


Which allele is recessive and which is dominant in the abbreviation Bb?

B is dominant and b is recessive.

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What are the differrent forms of a gene?

The 3 forms of a gene (called alleles) are:Dominant-dominant Ex.(BB)Dominant-recessive Ex.(Bb)Recessive-recessive Ex.(bb)


What does a punett square show?

The chance of a particular trait being inherited. For each trait there are several alleles, some are dominant and others recessive, for example brown eyes are dominant over blue. The recessive phenotype can only have a genotype with both recessive alleles eg. bb The dominant phenotype can have a genotype with both dominant alleles eg. BB or one of each eg. Bb A punnet square shows the likelihood of a phenotype being inherited from given genotypes, alleles etc... BB and Bb makes BB BB Bb Bb All offspring will have the dominant phenotype (BB or Bb) eg. brown eyes Bb and Bb makes BB Bb Bb bb One in four of the offspring will have the recessive phenotype (bb) eg. blue eyes


What is the difference between dominant alleles and recessive alleles?

dominant-appears in first generation recessive-seems to dissapear


Is a recessive gene expressed?

Ok, im assuming your question is "if two recessive alleles are present will the trait be expressed" A trait will be expressed if two alleles are recessive but it will not be the same representation as two dominant alleles. For example, T being a tall pea plant and t being a small pea plant. Two recessive alleles or, homozygous recessive, alleles The other option would be there is one dominant and one recessive, heterozygous, which would look like Tt. This would take on the trait of the dominant allele usually expressed by the capital letter. So this heterozygous plant would be tall.


What is meaning of alleles?

An allele is the different forms of a gene. For example the gene for eye colour has the alleles; brown, blue, green etc. In every person there are two alleles for every gene but both alleles are not always the same. They can be dominant and recessive; dominant alleles are expressed no matter what other allele is present, recessive alleles require both alleles to be the recessive one to be expressed. E.g. say B is the allele for brown eyes and b is the allele for blue eyes. Brown is dominant therefore if someone had Bb or BB they'd have brown eyes and if they had bb their eyes would be blue.


What is the difference between a dominant and recessive allele?

Dominant is an allele that can be expressed in a heterozygous individual (ie. Bb) or homozygous dominant (ie. BB). Recessive on other hand are traits that will only be expressed in a homozygous recessive (ie. bb) condition. Under normal circumstances, dominant alleles are the ones expressed in the phenotype, while the recessive allele is not. For example (an extremely simplified example) an heterozygous individual for eye color. (genotype Bb), has one dominant allele, 'B', and one recessive allele, 'b'. Given that B is for brown eyes, and b is for blue eyes, that individual's phenotype would be expressed as brown eyes (and be recessive for blue eyes). Organisms receive one allele for each trait from each parent, thus you have two alleles for each trait.


How do dominant and recessive alleles affect an offsprings phenotype?

The traits inherited depends upon the alleles that have been passed on from the father and mother.The traits that are exhibited is called as the phenotype. Dominant allele needs only one copy to be expressed.For example in a pea plant "T" represents the tall dominant allele and "t" the short recessive allele .TT - when there are two dominant alleles the pea plant will express the tall trait. The pea plant is tall.Tt - when there is one dominant and one recessive allele the pea plant will still express the tall trait.In this case the dominant allele masks the recessive allele and the pea plant is still tall.tt - when there are two recessive alleles the pea plant will express the recessive trait and the pea plant is short.For a recessive trait to show up there should be a pair of recessive alleles.


Why is there a greater chance of getting a dominant trait rather than a recessive trait?

A dominant trait occurs when either both alleles are dominant or one allele is dominant and the other is recessive. This is because a dominant allele overpowers a recessive allele. In order to have a recessive trait both alleles must be recessive.


How do genetics indicate a dominate allele and a recessive allele?

I only have basic genetic knowledge, but I'm fairly certain that a dominant allele would be indicated by an uppercase letter and a recessive one would be indicated by a lower-case one. For example, the color bi-black would be indicated as "bb" for two recessive alleles, "Bb" for one, and "BB" for only dominant alleles. Make sense? :)


What happens to A trait controlled by a dominant gene?

yes, if two Bb parents have kids, there is a 3:1 ratio that their children will show a dominant trait (BB Bb Bb bb). For multiple alleles (3 or more) it gets a little more complicated. Some traits, like height, have 1000's of genes affecting them. Consult your biology teacher for more information.Yes. Because to have a dominant trait you can have two dominant alleles or just one dominant and one recessive (because a dominant allele negates the effect of a recessive allele.) To get a recessive trait it takes two recessive alleles as oppose to a dominant trait where it takes only 1 to have a dominant trait. Therefore Dominant traits are more common.


Which allele is recessive and which is dominant in the abbreviation Bb?

B is dominant and b is recessive.


What happens when a dominant and recessive allele are both present?

The resulting offspring will have the dominant trait. It depends on if the dominant is hetero or homo...if it was homozygous then your offspring will have a hetozygous trait showing the dominant trait (to clear this up if you are confused lets say we are talking about brown eyes(BB-dominant) vs blue eyes(bb-recessive)--a homozygous would give you a brown eyed child with Bb and but if the person is heterozygous Bb and gets with a recessive you have a chance of getting Bb or bb giving you a possibility of a brown or blue eyed child)...wow i just made that way more confusing than it had to be