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In dominant-recessive inheritance, the one allele that affects the child's characteristics is called __________.

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A dominant allele creates a phenotype individual who have one copy of allele from one parent that can affect the child’s characteristic; the other allele is called recessive, which has no effect on child’s traits. The dominant and recessive inheritance are both beneficial in terms of giving perceptions on the probability of a person inheriting a phenotypes especially with genetic conditions.

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