Which traits are most likely to be passed down from parent to offspring: dominant or recessive?

Answer 1

most people would say dominant, but that is not necesarily true. You can have dominant traits from your mom and recessive from dad, but mom may have passed a recessive to you as well and which ever there is 2 of you will get.
I.E. My mom has green eyes (D), my dad has blue (R) I have blue. In order for me to have blue, I would have had 2 recessive traits passed on from mom and dad. It can be tricky at times to figure it out.
Good Luck!

Answer 2

It can be either. The fact that it's dominant or recessive does not mean it's more likely to be passed down. If a trait is dominant it just means that it shows up as a phenotype. Recessive traits show up only when the other gene is not dominant. Mother = 1 trait, Father = 1 trait. A punnett square will give you an idea what of the offspring will have but it will never be 100%.

If the trait for hair color was recessive/recessive in the mother. The father has recessive/dominant. The recessive trait would most likely be passed on.

Answer 3

Dominant

Answer 4

The most simplified version of genetics I know:

D = Dominant
r = recessive

If the pairing is DD, Dr or rD then the dominant allele will be present in the offspring. If the pairing is rr then the recessive allele will be present. So the dominant allele has a 75% of being present in the offspring.

Answer 5

Dominant. Because they are the traits that are inherited over recessive traits, unless both parents are carriers of ONLY the recessive gene. In that case, all children would inherit the recessive trait.

Answer 6

Its completely random....you parents combined have 92 chromosomes to give you....4 sets of 23.... you will get only 23 from each parent and which 23 you get is random (as a result of independent assortment at meiosis)...and later there is a thing called crossing over which takes bits of your mother's chromosome and switches it for the same bit on your father's.....it random....it mixes up chromosomes (which have the different types of genes on them) and switches genes around too. You may as a result get more features like your mother than father as a result, but it also depends on how many dominant or recessive traits you get as dominant traits mask the effects of recessive ones (ey brown eyes, freckles)

Answer 7

Dominant.

Answer 8

in most cases, dominant

i don't remember the name exactly but theres a square/table you can use to figure out all the possibilities of the trait in an offspring by knowing what the parents have

Answer 9

Yay, I just learned about this today. The dominant trait would cover up the recessive trait!

Answer 10

both will be passed down, but only the dominant will show because dominant is always stronger than recessive