What Are The Similarities Between Heritable And Recessive Gene

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ave you ever wonder how we our genes tells how we look, talk, what race we are this is all based on Genetics. In this essay we are going to talk about how Heritable/genetic trait, Dominant vs recessive genes, and mutation affects us and how it affects people with these genes. Without genes we will all look the same so rather i think that genes aren’t important they are very important. Heritable/Genetic traits are very important to us because these are the genes that we get from our parents. A Heritable trait is the genes that we get from our parents this determines our eye color, color of our hair, and what colored skin we are. A genetic trait is a trait that we get from what we see trending today like a fashion trend, the brands that we wear, and what we like in life. we don't inherit these from our parents this is what we get from everyday use. The way that is affects me is that i wear some of the clothes that most people wear and i will always try to stay up with the trends that go on in life. …show more content…
A Dominant gene is a gene that we will end up getting from our parents. For example my mother doesn’t wear glasses but my father does so I ended up with the genes from my father so I need to wear glasses everyday. A recessive gene is the gene that i would not end up getting it. Because the dominant gene will override that recessive gene and I will be less likely that I will get it like having an aunt that has blue eyes I would not get that gene because I will only get the genes from

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