When you learned to speak English, you may have learned the following saying: "When two vowels go walking, the first does the talking." If we were to apply this rule to heterozygous genes, we would be most accurate if we said, "When two genes go walking, the ________ one does the talking."
A) masked
B) recessive
C) dominant
D) typical

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In genetics, dominant alleles are responsible for producing the observable traits or phenotypes in an organism. When an individual has one dominant and one recessive allele of a gene, the dominant allele will always express itself and the recessive allele will be masked. This is why the dominant allele "does the talking" when two genes or alleles are present.

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