What are the priciples of dominance?

Answer 1

Dominance in genetics is a relationship between alleles of one gene, in which one allele is expressed over a second allele at the same locus. The first allele is dominant and the second allele is recessive.

Answer 2

A gene is composed of two alleles ( one from mom and one from dad ) and one of these alleles is " dominant " over the other in the expression of protein product and the " dominant " allele is seen in the phenotype.

Answer 3

Mendel's Law of Dominance - The first law of Mendel states that "In a cross of parents that are pure for contrasting traits, only one form of the trait will appear in the progency"

Answer 4

When two pure breeding organisms of contrasting characters are crossed,only one character of the pair appears in the F1 generation.this is known as the dominant character. The other unexpressed or hidden character is known as the recessive character.

Answer 5

1. When in doubt consider it masculine (esp. when refering to animals)

2. It only takes one male to make a group masculine.