Blonde hair is recessive and brown is dominant, what is the phenotype for a heterozygous individual? *
A.) Blonde
B.) Brown
I am thinking A.)

Question

Blonde hair is recessive and brown is dominant, what is the phenotype for a heterozygous individual? *
 A.) Blonde
B.) Brown
I am thinking A.)

misssmartiez · Answer

Why A?

anonymous · Answer

Because recessive is like phenotype?

anonymous · Answer

im sorry, i am bad at explaining these things...

misssmartiez · Answer

Remember, you need two recessives for the trait to show physically.

Like, you can have the genotype for blonde hair, but it doesn't show. Because, no other recessive mark is present, therefore the dominate overtakes it.

Hertyzygous means 2 different alleles, so it can't be a recessive, most likely dominate.

Remember, geno is what you have.

pheno is what you can see.

misssmartiez · Answer

or, say for instance. I have black hair, but I also have a genotype for brown. So.. Why does only black physically show?