you have a recessive phenotype for a given trait, but neither of your parents has that phenotype, what can you say about the genotype of your parents for that trait?     Both of your parents have to be hetorozygous     One of your parents might be homozygous dominant but the other has to be hetorozygous     Both of your parents must be homozygous dominant     Both of your parents have to be homozygous recessive

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f you have a recessive phenotype for a given trait, but neither of your parents has that phenotype, what can you say about the genotype of your parents for that trait?

   

Both of your parents have to be hetorozygous

   

One of your parents might be homozygous dominant but the other has to be hetorozygous

   

Both of your parents must be homozygous dominant

   

Both of your parents have to be homozygous recessive

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