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Will selection eliminate a harmful recessive allele from a population as quickly as it will remove a harmful dominant allele? Why or why not?

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Answer:

no

Step-by-step explanation:

you can see dominant traits on every organism that can have them, meanwhile you can have carriers for recessive traits, so there can be hidden traits, thus it will take

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