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What is the name given to the weaker trait that can be covered up by the dominant trai?
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∙ 12y ago
The recessive gene - less stronger than the dominant one.
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What is a trait that is overridden by another trait?
Dominant- Covers up another form of a trait. Recessive- Is covered up by a dominant trait.
What type of alleles does a carrier have?
A carrier is heterozygous for a given trait. They would display the dominant trait but still be able to pass the recessive trait to their children.
A living thing with a dominant and recessive gene for a trait?
A living thing with a dominant and a recessive gene for a trait is heterozygous. This individual will display the dominant phenotype for that trait but may have offspring that display the recessive trait.
Dominant and recessive traits?
A dominant trait is a genetic trait which may cause a hereditary condition, a recessive trait disappears or goes in the background and only shows in a few generations.
If an offspring receives a pair of trait-controllers containing both a dominant and a recessive trait what happens to the recessive trait?
The dominant trait is shown in that organism with the possibility of carrying either the dominant or recessive gene to the next generation
What is the relation between dominant and recessive alleles?
the dominant trait is the stronger one and the recessive trait is the weaker one
What is a trait that is overridden by another trait?
Dominant- Covers up another form of a trait. Recessive- Is covered up by a dominant trait.
What type of trait that is masked or covered?
dominant
What describes a trait that is covered over or dominated by another form of the trait and seems to disappear?
The trait that is being masked is recessive, and the trait that is doing the masking is dominant.
In a hybrid individual the trait that is covered and not expressed is the what trait?
recessive
13 What is the name of a weak trait that is masked by a stronger trait?
The weaker trait is called the recessive trait The stronger one is called the dominant trait
Trait of an organism that can be masked by the dominant by the dominant form of a trait?
A trait that masks another trait is called dominant, or a dominant trait.
What does it mean to be homozygous dominant heterozygous or homozygous recessive?
Homozygous means "same" so a homozygous recessive trait would be a same [with parents] trait that is not the stronger trait which is dominant. Dominant is stronger showing trait, recessive is weaker trait. If you are dealing with Punnett squares then tt is homozygous recessive and TT is homozygous dominant. Hope this helped...
What is a dominant allale?
A dominant allele is the gene that hides the other allele for a given trait. It is also a trait or characteristic that came from just one parent.
What type of alleles does a carrier have?
A carrier is heterozygous for a given trait. They would display the dominant trait but still be able to pass the recessive trait to their children.
How can you use dominant trait in a sentence?
The dominant trait for eye color in humans is brown, which means that if one parent has brown eyes and the other has blue eyes, the child is more likely to inherit brown eyes due to the dominant trait.
A trait which always appears when it is present is called what kind of trait?
It is called a dominant trait
