What is the differencebetween dominant allele andrecessive allele?

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What is the difference
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Genetics is a study of genes, heredity, and genetic variation in an organism. Living organisms inherit traits from their parents; these traits are determined by the genes inherited from parents. The knowledge from genetics used to know how traits transferred to an offspring and affect them. Nowadays, we can overcome the effects of genetic and some other diseases. It is possible because of the study of genetics.

The pair of genes responsible for a particular characteristic in an individual are called alleles. The alleles are the two or more alternative forms of the gene.

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