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In complete dominance, the dominant character appears with 50% in the second generation, when one pair of pure recessive allelomorphic characters are inherited from the father and hybrid dominant allelomorphic from the mother

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Answer: This statement is incorrect. In complete dominance, the dominant allele completely masks the expression of the recessive allele in the phenotype of heterozygous individuals. When a pair of pure recessive allelomorphic characters are inherited from the father and hybrid dominant allelomorphic from the mother, all of the offspring will be heterozygous with one dominant allele and one recessive allele. Therefore, all of the offspring will show the dominant phenotype, and the frequency of the dominant phenotype will be 100% in the second generation, not 50%.

For example, if the pure recessive allele is represented as "aa" and the dominant allele is represented as "A", the father would contribute "aa" and the mother would contribute "Aa" to the offspring. The offspring would inherit one allele from each parent, resulting in the genotypes of "Aa" for all offspring. In complete dominance, the dominant allele "A" would mask the expression of the recessive allele "a", resulting in all offspring having the dominant phenotype. Therefore, the statement that the dominant character appears with 50% in the second generation is not correct.

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