Question #e336c
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Dec 4, 2017
Mendel's law of dominance states that among diploid organisms recessive alleles will be masked by dominant alleles.
Explanation:
Diploid organisms contain two set of genes (alleles). One set is inherited from each parent. Alleles are alternative forms of a gene. Alleles may be dominant or recessive. Recessive alleles are masked or covered up by dominant alleles. When dominant and receive alleles are present there are three possible combinations of alleles for a given trait: homozygous recessive (two recessive alleles), homozygous dominant (two dominant alleles), and heterozygous (one of each). The homozygous dominant genotype and the heterozygous genotype will both express the same dominant phenotype.
