CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -One of Gregor Mendel’s greatest contributions to the study of heredity was the concept of dominance. Mendel observed that a heterozygote offspring can show the same phenotype as the parent homozygote, so he concluded that there were some traits that dominated over other inherited traits.

Detailed explanation-2: -A dominant trait is an inherited characteristic that appears in an offspring if it is contributed from a parent through a dominant allele.

Detailed explanation-3: -A dominant gene, or a dominant version of a gene, is a particular variant of a gene, which for a variety of reasons, expresses itself more strongly all by itself than any other version of the gene which the person is carrying, and, in this case, the recessive.

Detailed explanation-4: -The inheritance of one or two copies of the dominant alleles results in the expression of a dominant trait. Also called: dominant character.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dominant alleles are represented by capital letters and recessive alleles are represented by lowercase letters. For example, blue eyes are a recessive trait and brown eyes are a dominant trait.