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Dwarfism is a dominant trait in humans.

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What is the difference dominant and recessive trait?

Dominant traits are the traits that mask the recessive traits. The dominant traits are stronger than recessive!


What genes are recessive traits?

These traits are called dominant traits. They will overcome the recessive gene and the dominant trait will be expressed. A recessive gene needs two alleles present in its genotype to be expressed.


Which traits oberved were dominant and recessive?

In genetics, dominant traits are those that are expressed when an individual has one or two copies of the dominant allele, while recessive traits are only expressed when an individual has two copies of the recessive allele and no dominant allele present. Dominant traits often mask recessive traits in heterozygous individuals.


What do organisms pass to their offspring?

They pass on traits. There are recessive traits and dominant traits. The dominant trait is normally the one that overpowers recessive


How are alleles shown in genetic coding?

letters are used to represent traits for example capital letters are used to show dominant traits GG-two dominant traits lower case letters are used to show recessive gg-two recessive traits


How is Dominant and Recessive differ?

Dominant traits are expressed when just one copy of the gene is present, while recessive traits require two copies to be expressed. Dominant traits mask recessive traits when they are both present.


When does a recessive trait dominant over a dominant trait?

A recessive trait cannot be dominant over a dominant trait. Dominant traits are always expressed over recessive traits in heterozygous individuals because they mask the expression of the recessive trait.


What are the type of traits?

I think it is Dominant and recessive.


Dominant traits in terms of heredity?

Dominant traits are traits that are expressed when an individual carries at least one copy of the dominant allele. These traits mask the expression of recessive alleles. For example, if an individual has one dominant allele for brown eyes and one recessive allele for blue eyes, they will have brown eyes because the dominant allele is expressed.


How are dominant and recessive genes related?

Dominate them. Recessive alleles do not show in your phenotype unless you have two of the same recessive allele. But if you inherit one dominant and one recessive, it is the dominant that always shows in your phenotype.


What gene will exhibit its traits even in a prensesce of a recessive gene?

A dominant gene will exhibit its traits even in the presence of a recessive gene. This is because the dominant gene masks the expression of the recessive gene when present in the same individual.


What did Mendel call the observed trait and the trait that seemed to disappear?

he called the observed traits dominant and the disapear traits recessive.