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Why is albinism a recessive allele?

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Q: Why is albinism a recessive allele?
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Is albinism controlled by a dominant allele or by a recessive allele?

Recessive allele.


Is albinism controlled by a dominant allele o recessive allele?

It is controlled by a recessive allele.


Is albinism a dominat or reccesive trait?

Albinism is a recessive trait which will result in a lack of pigmentation in the skin eyes and hair. It occurs about 1 in every 17,000 people in the U.S.


Is albinism a recessive trait or dominant?

Recessive. The trait will only show up if both parents have the gene recessively (aa). If the genetic make up is Aa or AA, there will be melanin production, meaning albinism is an aa gene only. Albinism is a recessive allele.


How can albinism in plants keep occurring if they cannot reproduce?

because the recessive allele is still present in heterozygous individuals. these individuals have one dominant allele and so show the dominant phenotype but they are capable of producing offspring with the recessive condition


What is allele masked by the dominant allele?

The Allele That Is Covered By The Dominant Allele Is The Recessive Allele.


Does a recessive allele need another recessive allele to be expressed?

I think if an allele "want" to be expressed, then it has to have a dominant allele. They don't need another recessive allele.


What is the term for an allele that is not expressed in the phenotype of a heterozygous individual?

incomplete dominance source: PH Bio textbook


How is a recessive allele from a dominant allele?

its different because adominant allele is in charge


What is it Dominant allele What is a recessive allele?

A genotype in which there are both a dominant and a recessive allele is called heterozygous.


What is e difference between a dominate and recessive allele?

The answer is that The difference is that dominant dominates, and recessive is dominated.


What is a dominant allele what is a recessive allele?

An allele that hide the effect of other allele is called dominant.Allele that is masked is called recessive .