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Q: What is it when a gene is represented with a lowercase letter?
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A person with a heterozygous gene?

A person with a heterozygous gene has one dominant allele, usually represented by a capital letter, and a recessive allele, which is usually represented with a lowercase letter. So an example of a heterozygous gene would be Rr


What do you call is the stronger gene represented by a capital letter?

Dominant gene. The gene represented by a lower case letter is called the Recessive gene.


Meter is represented by a lowercase what?

When measuring distance, meters are represented by a lowercase m.


When gene pairs are written the dominant allele has an?

Capital letter (recessive is lowercase)


What is represented by a pair of lowercase letter such as tt in a punnett square?

a pair of recessive genes


What is the copy of a gene?

When a gene may be represented by the capital letter N, the gene pair is 2N.


A recessive allele is represented by an letter?

Most of the time a recessive allele is expressed using lower case letters in comparision to the upper case dominant alleles.


How are dominant and recessive alleles are represented in a punnet square?

Dominant alleles are shown by a capital letter and recessive alleles are lowercase letters.


The basic unit of length in the metric system in the blank and is represented by a lowercase blank?

It is a meter, which is represented by a lower case m.


How dominant and recessive are represented in a punnet square?

Dominant alleles are shown by a capital letter and recessive alleles are lowercase letters.


How are Dominant and recessive alleles are represented in Punnet Square?

Dominant alleles are shown by a capital letter and recessive alleles are lowercase letters.


What form is a gene that is always expressed if present?

This is the dominate gene, and is normally represent by a capital letter. Then gene which is not expressed is the recessive gene and is represented by a lower case letter. For example the if someone had expressed a brown eyed phenotype and did not carry the gene for blue eyes it be represented as BB (B standing for Brown). If they expressed the brown eye phenotype and also carried the gene for blue eyes it would be represented as Bb (b does not stand for blue it stands for NOT BROWN) While if someone had blue eyes it would be represented as bb