What is a carrier of hereditary traits?

Answer 1

A carrier is one who has an allele that can only express itself when it is paired up with an identical allele. For instance, let says there's a woman homozygous dominant for brown eyes (BB) and she mates with someone that has blue eyes (bb). Now, lets say they make a child that is heterozygous (Bb) and the child has brown eyes. Although that child has brown eyes, they aren't dominant homozygous for brown eyes like their mother, they are HETEROZYGOUS and carry the b allele of their father. Thus, we say this child is a carrier of the b allele. They're phenotype is brown eyes, but their genotype is Bb.

Answer 2

Most traits in our body are linked to two genes, one from our mother and one from a father. If you are a carrier for a genetic disease, it means that you have one defective gene and one "normal" gene.

Answer 3

A carrier of hereditary traits is an individual who possesses a gene for a specific trait but does not express the trait themselves. They can pass on the gene to their offspring, who may then express the trait. This is common in diseases like cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia.

Answer 4

A carrier for a genetic disorder is a parent who having a baby and has the genetic disorder in his/her blood and can possibly send it or carry it on to its child.

Answer 5

The Genetic Material of the Cell does this; an agent of this Mission is also known as a Gene.

Answer 6

An organism can have the gene without it necessarily manifesting into a trait. In that case they would be a carrier.

Answer 7

It means like it is your own thing

Answer 8

RNA