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Is wavy hair an incomplete dominant trait or a recessive trait like straight hair?
Extreme traits (which can be dominant or recessive) such as straight or curly hair have been sexually selected against, which is called stabilizing selection. For example, this is why most people are of an "average" height.
Head hair style is controlled by both hair texture, width, and oil content. Wavy hair is usually shown by individuals in the middle ranges of all of these traits. Different cultures sexually select for different traits,and there may be advantages to different traits in different environments, which explains why different races have unique hair types.
In my family (an eastern-european one where about 25% of us have wavy or curly hair), the straighter genes seem to dominate the wavier/curlier ones. The curly-haired folks who married Poker-straight spouses have produced almost excluively straight-haired children; the straight-haired folks who married someone who also had straight hair but whose family also exhibited some wave produced a few curly-haired variants; and the curly-haired ones who married other curly-haired partners produced 100% curly-haired children.
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Condition of being heterozygous for a recessive trait?
If you are heterozygous this means you carry both a dominant and recessive allele. if you are heterozygous for a recessive trait then you will have a dominant and recessive allele. example: let T represent tall and t represent short. a person with heterozygous for a recessive trait will have 'Tt'.
A trait that is masked by a dominant trait is called?
DNAactually it is not DNA at all, a dominant trait, masks a recessive trait.
An individual who is homozygous is what?
It is a genetic similarity between two organisms.
What is the definition of homogeneous?
Both alleles of one trait are either dominant or recessive. Not one dominant and one recessive. For example, the homogeneous hair of a cat would have both alleles of that trait be the same, say, BB or bb. NOT Bb.The above definition applies in the field of genetics. More generally, the word means "Of the same or similar nature or kind".
What does it mean if there is two different alleles for a trait?
The trait could show up in two different forms. Alleles are individual units that determine what trait will be expressed in an offspring. Alleles exist for most traits such as hair color or wing size. Having two alleles simply means that the trait can be expressed in different variation. One trait can have several different alleles.
Is huntington disease dominant or trait?
There is two answers, it is autosomal dominant showing incomplete dominace
How is incomplete dominance different from a dominant and recessive relationship?
Incomplete dominance is a genetic relationship where neither allele is completely dominant over the other. This results in a blending of traits, rather than one trait being dominant and the other recessive. In a dominant and recessive relationship, one allele is fully dominant over the other, leading to the expression of only one trait.
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.
Is a Straight thumb dominant or recessive?
In terms of genetics, the straight thumb trait is typically considered a dominant trait, while the curved thumb trait is considered recessive. This means that if a person inherits even one copy of the straight thumb gene, they are likely to have a straight thumb.
What type of trait prevents the other type from being seen?
A recessive trait. When a recessive allele is with a dominant allele, only the dominanate trait can be seen.
What describes a trait that is covered over or dominated by another form of the trait and seems to disappear?
A trait that is covered over or dominated by another form of the trait and seems to disappear is called a recessive trait. In genetics, recessive traits only manifest when an individual has two copies of the recessive allele.
Is diabetes dominant or recessive trait?
It is a recessive trait
What letter is used to represent Straight Thumb trait?
The dominant trait is hitchhiker's thumb and the letter is H, and the recessive trait straight thumb is h
In a hybrid individual the trait that is covered and not expressed is the what trait?
recessive
Is albinism a dominant or recessive trait?
Albinism is a recessive trait.
What is the allele which is overuled?
The two types of alleles are dominant and recessive. The recessive allele will still be present but the recessive trait is not usually seen. However, is not always overruled. In the cases of codominance and incomplete dominance, the recessive trait still shows through some of the dominant one.
A living thing that shows a dominant trait may be homozygous dominant or homozygous recessive for the trait true or false?
False because a living thing that shows a dominant trait can not be homozygous recessive. If it is homozygous recessive it will show recessive trait. A living thing that shows dominant trait may be homozygous dominant or hetrozygous.
