Question

HELP 2. What is a dominant allele? What is a recessive allele? Give an example of each.

Answer 1

Dominant allele is represented by a capital letter and recessive allele is represented by a lower case letter

Answer 2

Answer:

Dominant allele: A dominant allele is a variation of a gene that will produce a certain phenotype, even in the presence of other alleles. A dominant allele typically encodes for a functioning protein. ... When a dominant allele is completely dominant over another allele, the other allele is known as recessive.

Recessive allele: A recessive allele is a variety of genetic code that does not create a phenotype if a dominant allele is present. An allele is a specific variation of a gene, or specific segment of DNA. ... Different alleles produce slightly different proteins, which function in different ways.