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Anindividual is homozygousrecessive for a particularcharacter. Can one of itsparents be homozygousdominant? Explain youranswer

Anindividual is homozygousrecessive for a particularcharacter. Can one of itsparents-example-1
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Mendelian genetics

An individual receives one allele from each parent, thus, in the case of a homozygous recessive individual (aa), it received one recessive allele from each parent, and therefore it is not possible that one of its parents is a homzygous dominant (AA). The parents may be either heterozygous (Aa) or homozygous recessive (aa), in both cases porters of the recessive allele that will inherit to their child.

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