Blog 6: Dominant and Recessive Alleles

Dominant alleles are "dominant" meaning that it's characteristics would appear in some form no matter what. Recessive alleles are not dominant, so if paired up with the dominant, it's traits would not show, but if it is paired up with itself, only it's characteristics would show. The dominant traits are the ones that are most common, like brown eyes and straight hair. Green and blue eyes are recessive.