What if both parents have dominant genes?

If both alleles are dominant, it is called codominance?. The resulting characteristic is due to both alleles being expressed equally. An example of this is the blood group AB which is the result of codominance of the A and B dominant alleles.

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What if there are two dominant genes?

When you have two copies of the alleles that are both dominant, this is called codominance . For example, if the dominant trait is red for flowers and another dominant trait is white, then the flower will have both red and white as the dominant traits are expressed equally.

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Which parent gives you the most dominant genes?

Most people feel as though they look more like their biological mom or biological dad. They may even think they act more like one than the other. And while it is true that you get half of your genes from each parent, the genes from your father are more dominant, especially when it comes to your health.

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Can two parents with dominant traits produce an offspring with recessive trait?

Only individuals with an aa genotype will express a recessive trait; therefore, offspring must receive one recessive allele from each parent to exhibit a recessive trait. One example of a recessive inherited trait is a smooth chin, as opposed to a dominant cleft chin.

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Can dominant traits be passed down?

Autosomal dominant is one of many ways that a trait or disorder can be passed down through families. In an autosomal dominant disease, if you get the abnormal gene from only one parent, you can get the disease. Often, one of the parents may also have the disease.

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Understanding Autosomal Dominant and Autosomal Recessive Inheritance

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What happens if two dominant traits mix?

If both alleles are dominant, it is called codominance?. The resulting characteristic is due to both alleles being expressed equally. An example of this is the blood group AB which is the result of codominance of the A and B dominant alleles.

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Is dark skin dominant or recessive?

The darkest skin color indicates the presence of three dominant alleles (AABBCC). Therefore dark skin is a dominant character. The lightest skin color indicates the presence of recessive alleles (aabbcc). Because melanin is a dominant phenotype, and all-white skin genes are recessive.

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What are the most dominant genes?

Paternal genes have been found to be more dominant than the maternal ones.

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Do two dominant genes make a recessive gene?

For a recessive allele to produce a recessive phenotype, the individual must have two copies, one from each parent. An individual with one dominant and one recessive allele for a gene will have the dominant phenotype.

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What is the probability for both parents passing on dominant alleles?

If both parents are heterozygous and affected by the disorder, 75% of the offspring have the chance of inheriting a dominant allele and being affected by the disorder.

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Who has the stronger genes mom or dad?

Genetically, a person actually carries more of his/her mother's genes than his/her father's. The reason is little organelles that live within cells, the? mitochondria, which are only received from a mother. Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and is inherited from the mother.

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What color eyes are dominant?

The allele for brown eyes is the most dominant allele and is always dominant over the other two alleles and the allele for green eyes is always dominant over the allele for blue eyes, which is always recessive.

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What eye color is most dominant?

Eye colour, or more correctly iris colour, is often used as an example for teaching Mendelian genetics, with brown being dominant and blue being recessive.

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What genes do fathers pass on?

Because boys have the sex chromosomes XY, they must inherit their Y chromosome from their father. This means they inherit all the genes on this chromosome, including things like sperm production and other exclusively male traits.

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Is the dominant gene stronger?

A dominant gene, or a dominant version of a gene, is a particular variant of a gene, which for a variety of reasons, expresses itself more strongly all by itself than any other version of the gene which the person is carrying, and, in this case, the recessive.

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What does two dominant traits mean?

Typically, an individual who carries two copies of a dominant allele exhibits the same trait as those who carry only one copy. This contrasts to a recessive trait, which requires that both alleles be present to express the trait.

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What genes are inherited from mother only?

Unlike nuclear DNA, which comes from both parents, mitochondrial DNA comes only from the mother.

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Is black a dominant gene?

Black is dominant, which means black individuals must have at least one B allele. Their genotype could be either BB or Bb. In this pedigree, black individuals are not filled in.

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Which is the strongest genotype?

The AA genotype has the best compatibility ratio. An individual with the AA genotype can choose a life partner from virtually all other genotype categories with an extremely minimal possibility of sickle-celled offspring.

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Which gender has the dominant gene?

Being male is the result of a dominant gene. But many of the problems that plague males more often are because of recessive genes on the X chromosome.

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How do you know whose gene is more dominant?

For example, if a trait tends to be directly passed from parent to child, then the odds are pretty good that the trait is a dominant one. If a trait skips generations or pops up out of nowhere, then the odds are pretty good that it is recessive.

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Which parent determines skin color of baby?

When a baby inherits skin color genes from both biological parents, a mixture of different genes will determine their skin color. Since a baby inherits half its genes from each biological parent, its physical appearance will be a mix of both.

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Is being tall dominant or recessive?

The trait "tall" is dominant (T) while "short" is recessive (t).

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What color was the first human?

Dark skin. All modern humans share a common ancestor who lived around 200,000 years ago in Africa. Comparisons between known skin pigmentation genes in chimpanzees and modern Africans show that dark skin evolved along with the loss of body hair about 1.2 million years ago and that this common ancestor had dark skin.

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