Dragons Genetics: Understanding Alleles and Phenotypes

A dragon that is homozygous dominant for the allele for fangs (A) will have the genotype "AA with fangs" and the phenotype of having fangs.

Genotype and Phenotype in Dragon Genetics

In the world of genetics, the genotype of an organism refers to the combination of alleles that determine a specific trait. Alleles are the different forms of a gene that an individual inherits from their parents. On the other hand, the phenotype of an organism refers to the physical characteristics that result from the interaction between the genotype and the environment.

In the case of dragons with the allele for fangs (A), the allele is dominant over the allele for no fangs (a), which is recessive. This means that dragons with the genotype "AA" or "Aa" will express the phenotype of having fangs, while dragons with the genotype "aa" will not have fangs.

Therefore, a dragon that is homozygous dominant for the allele for fangs (A) will have the genotype "AA" and the phenotype of having fangs. This means that both of the dragon's alleles for the fang trait are the dominant allele "A," resulting in the expression of the fanged phenotype.