To discuss:
Why it cannot be said that dominant alleles are the most common ones in a population and recessive alleles are less common; examples for this statement.
Introduction:
Homologous chromosomes carry two forms of a gene in the same locus known as alleles. Genotype is the pair of alleles of the gene that is possessed for a particular physical trait of an organism. Human (diploid organism) consists of two alleles of each gene; one allele is inherited from the mother and other from the father. Dominant (T) and recessive (t) alleles produce different forms of a
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