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Can two people with a dominant phenotype have a child with the recessive phenotype

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Yes

Explanation: Each parent would have to be heterozygos and there would be a 25% chance of having recessive phenotype.

User Sean Turner
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Hi ,

Yes. if Parent A is : dominant / recessive and Parent B is : Dominant / recessive you 've got a probability of 1 among 4

Combinaisons are : Dominant/ Dominant ; Dominant / Recessive ; Recessive / dominant ; Recessive / Recessive

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