Question

Explain how the recessive trait for coat colour is hidden in cats when two parents that are purebred for different fur colour are crossed

Answer 1

@Missiey

Answer 2

@voltage

Answer 3

@Photon336

Answer 4

Dominance in genetics is a relationship between alleles of one gene, in which the effect on phenotype of one allele masks the contribution of a second allele at the same locus.[1][2] The first allele is dominant and the second allele is recessive. For genes on an autosome (any chromosome other than a sex chromosome), the alleles and their associated traits are autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive. Dominance is a key concept in Mendelian inheritance and classical genetics. Often the dominant allele codes for a functional protein whereas the recessive allele does not

Answer 5

@voltage so, technically. in this case an individual could carry the gene but it's not expressed as the phenotype because the offspring must be dominant or something like this: { Tt] where the offspring carries the recessive trait.

Answer 6

exactly