Question

Which best describes a recessive allele?

Answer 1

Answer:

A recessive allele is the allele which can decide the appearance of an organism only in the presence of another identical allele.

It is represented by corresponding small letters.

SOME OTHER SUCH DEFINATIONS:-

• A dominant gene is a gene which decides the appearance of an organism even in the presence of an alternative contrasting gene. It is denoted by a capital letter.

• An allele is one pair of jeans that appears at a particular location on a particular chromosome and controls the same characterstics.

• A homozygous organism have two identical alleles of a particular gene.

• A heterozygous organism have two different alleles of a particular gene.

• Gene is a unit of DNA on which chromosomes governs the synthesis of one particular protein which controls a specific characteristic of an organism.