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What occurs when a dominant allele for a trait is only partly expressed?
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Are dominant or recessive alleles easier to remove by selection?
Natural selection favors whatever allele provides a selective advantage, so in theory it can operate on either. However, if a recessive allele provides an advantage it will soon shift and become the dominant allele, so it could be argued that natural selection favors dominant alleles. This is only partly true. A dominant gene always has some effect on the characteristics of the organism, even if the owner only has one of them. A recessive gene only affects the characteristics if there is no equivalent dominant gene to mask the effect. If both parents possess the recessive gene there is a chance the offspring will have two of them and this will show in their characteristics. When this happens, natural selection operates on the recessive gene. Much of the time, a recessive gene is present but natural selection does not affect it because there is a dominant gene that masks the effect. If natural selection favours the recessive gene, the dominant gene will quite quickly disappear from the population. This does not make the recessive gene 'dominant' it's just tht there's no longer any competition. If selection favours the dominant gene however, the recessive gene can linger in the population for much longer, because even when it is present, it is not selected against for most of the time. That is why conditions like heamophilia survives for a long time in humans, and you suddenly discover a white deer after many years in a herd of brown deer.
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