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What is the difference between dominant and recessive?

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In humans, each gene has two copies, or alleles. A person with a dominant allele for a specific trait always expresses that trait, even if the other copy of the allele he possesses is recessive. Dominant alleles repress, or mask, recessive alleles.
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