Dominant trait

... that would ensue in order to produce a new order. If one mutates with a dominant trait, then the recessive trait will still show in the offspring, and as modern mutations would ...

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... the beginning of the neanderthal man. And like you stated, perhaps this dominant gene stayed within the gene pool for many generations. And the bigger ... why an extra thickness of muscle would be needed to be a dominant trait of this sequestered gene pool. Somehow getting the food into the mouth ...

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”natural selection, a process that causes helpful traits (those that increase the chance of survival and reproduction) to become ... as an individual would probably disagree. Take Huntington's disease: it is dominant, lead to an early death (in the 40's or 50's) that is not even quick ...

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... polydactyly (an excess number of fingers and toes). The polydactyly trait is controlled by the dominant allele P on one gene. Bob's sister Sue does not have polydactyly. What is Bob's genotype? ...

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... scott and mary are both healthy and have an infected kid. assuming the trait has 100% penetrance, then they are both heterozygous. assuming the ... that is from the outside and is not obviously a carrier is homozygous dominant), then scott got his bad allele from jenny. thus jenny is Ff.

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