Rodeo_Pup OP t1_iywas47 wrote on December 4, 2022 at 5:54 PM

Reply to comment by Ein_The_Pup in How can you inherit recessive traits only one parent has? by Rodeo_Pup

So only one parent has to have a recessive gene and the other has a dominant one there’s actually just 50/50 chance and not a better chance you’ll inherit the dominant one?

Ein_The_Pup t1_iywbeqx wrote on December 4, 2022 at 5:58 PM

Not every gene is dom/rec. You don’t get one or the other. If one parent has a recessive, the other may have a recessive also. Therefore, it could be a 50/50 shot of you getting either or. Maybe your siblings all got one recessive and you got another.