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recessiveness: References & Edit History

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Assorted References

alleles
- In allele
classification and research
- In genetics: Classical genetics
congenital diseases
consanguinity
- In consanguinity: Inheritance and gene expressivity
determination
- In genetics: Population genetics
domestication
- In domestication: Biological and genetic changes
dominance
- In dominance
heredity
- In heredity: Discovery and rediscovery of Mendel’s laws

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: University of Utah - Leran.Genetics - What are Dominant and Recessive?	Aakanksha Gaur	Mar 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of Utah - Leran.Genetics - What are Dominant and Recessive?	Gloria Lotha	Mar 18, 2023
	Added information on diseases arising from the inheritance of recessive alleles.	Kara Rogers	Nov 06, 2019
	Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Dominant vs. Recessive Traits.	Yamini Chauhan	Dec 05, 2011
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The integrative biology of genetic dominance.	Yamini Chauhan	Dec 05, 2011
	Added new Web site: Clive Hesford - Inheritance Patterns.	Gaurav Shukla	Apr 23, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998