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Originally Posted by Lil Sis  I understand what you are saying... I was explaining recessive genes to my dd the other day... She was having a hard time understand how two brown eye parents can have a blue eye child but not two blue eye parents a brown eye child.
So.... recessive genes can be carried many generations and will show up only with another recessive gene. My question on your "human" example ... what was the father's gene pool? |
Problem
is that
long hair is a recessive gene...short hair is a DOMINATE gene.
Two (2) parents that
only carry recessive (long hair length) genes
cannot pass on a DOMINATE (smooth coat / short hair length) gene
because they do not possess the gene themselves.
If Minnie is
genetically smooth coated, I would like to know
from which recessive long hair parent...as presented to the OP...
did she inherit a DOMINATE hair length
gene neither of them carried genetically?