How Would You Create an Individual Who Will Definitely Have

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Multiple Choice

How would you create an individual who will definitely have blue eyes?

• A)Make sure they have one recessive gene for blue eyes and one dominant gene for brown eyes.
• B)Make sure they have one pair of recessive genes for blue eyes.
• C)Make sure they have a pair of alleles for eye color.
• D)Make sure they have one recessive gene for blue eyes and one dominant gene for green eyes.

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Definitions:

Incomplete Dominance

A genetic phenomenon where the offspring's phenotype is a blend of the parents' phenotypes.

Codominance

A genetic scenario where two different alleles for a gene are both fully expressed in a heterozygous individual, leading to a dual phenotype.

Epistasis

An interaction between genes in which the effect of one gene is modified by one or several other genes, which can enhance, diminish, or suppress the expression of the first gene.

Pleiotropic Genes

Genes that have multiple effects on an organism's phenotype, influencing several different traits.