When you learned to read 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

Question

When you learned to read 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

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

When two genes go walking, the dominant one does the talking. This means that if an individual has one dominant allele and one recessive allele, the dominant allele will be expressed in the phenotype.

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