Question

What are the odds of a child inheriting a recessive gene from parents who both carry the gene?

Answer 1

`3/4` or 75 %

Explanation:

There are four possibilities for the combination of two hybrid parents.

1. DD the child gets two Dominate genes
2. Dr the child gets a Dominate from the male and a recessive from the female.
3. r D the child gets a recessive from the male and a Dominate from the mother
4. rr the child gets a recessive from both parents.

The possibilities 2,3,and 4 all have a least 1 recessive gene.
2, 3 will result in a dominate phenotype because of the presence of a least one dominate gene.

Possibility 1 has two dominate genes and no recessive genes.

so `3/4` possibilities have at least one recessive genes.