Biology Questions and Answers
- Why can it be said that a
recessive allele can remain
hidden in the phenotype of an
individual and revealed only
when manifested in
homozygosity in the
offspring?
A recessive allele can remain hidden
because heterozygous individual, i.it does not manifest ine., it may be (^)
present in the genotype but not
expressed iallele is transmitted to thn the phenotype. When thise offspring and (^)
forms homozygous genotype with
another chromosomal linearecessive allele from otge the phenotypicalher (^)
characteristics that come out reveal its
existence.
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