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Title: Which of the following statements regarding genotypes and phenotypes is false?
Post by: rivetcolin on Feb 26, 2013
Which of the following statements regarding genotypes and phenotypes is false?



 a. The genetic makeup of an organism constitutes its genotype.

 b. Alleles are alternate forms of a gene.

 c. The expressed physical traits of an organism are called its phenotype.

 d. An organism with two different alleles for a single trait is said to be heterozygous for that trait.

 e. An allele that is fully expressed is referred to as recessive.


Title: Which of the following statements regarding genotypes and phenotypes is false?
Post by: rivertube on Feb 26, 2013
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Title: Which of the following statements regarding genotypes and phenotypes is false?
Post by: tony1653 on Feb 26, 2013
It's E.  It should be dominant, because it dominates the other allele.


Title: Which of the following statements regarding genotypes and phenotypes is false?
Post by: RiverTmasco on Feb 26, 2013
E is false.

An allele that is fully expressed is referred to as dominant.