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Please explain.

2007-11-08 12:45:57 · 4 answers · asked by Karla F 2 in Science & Mathematics Biology

tell if it is dominant or recessive.

2007-11-08 12:54:03 · update #1

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The question is a little vague, but I will try to answer. Many genes have a dominant allele and a recessive allele, so a specific trait can be either dominant or recessive. The dominant allele will always be visible in the phenotype (appearance) if it is present. eg. eye color: B=Brown (dominant), b=blue (recessive)
BB is homozygous dominant, so the eyes will be brown, Bb is heterozygous dominant, so the eyes will be brown because there is one copy of the Brown allele, and bb is homozygous recessive, so the eyes will be blue. There is also codominance, where two or more traits can be present at the same time, and incomplete dominance, where the dominant allele is weaker if there is only one copy, so the phenotype will appear to be a mixture of the dominant and recessive trait. Pandas probably exibit all of these types of genotypes (allele combinations) and phenotypes for different traits, but I'm not completely sure which ones. I would guess that fur color is an example of codminance, since there is both black and white present separately in the fur, but I'm am not sure.

2007-11-08 13:06:35 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 1 0

Big Red and Afroboy answers are both dominant traits.

I have no clue as to a ressessive one in pandas.

2007-11-08 20:56:35 · answer #2 · answered by Joan H 6 · 1 0

The love for bamboo

2007-11-08 20:48:45 · answer #3 · answered by Sgt Big Red 7 · 0 1

blakc and white markings haha

2007-11-08 20:48:49 · answer #4 · answered by afroboy11 2 · 0 1

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