How is it possible for a child to end up with a diiferent genotype or phenotype than either of their parents?

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Sariah Foster

Biology

5 November, 01:43

How is it possible for a child to end up with a diiferent genotype or phenotype than either of their parents?

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Darwin Liu · Answer 1

Tall parents can have a short child, short parents can have a tall child, and two parents of the same height may have a child in between?

Kallie Lowe · Answer 2

It is possible for a child to end up with a different genotype or phenotype than either of their parents because children get one allele from each parent. For example, if both parents were heterozygous for a trait, the child may get the recessive allele from each parent and end up with the homozygous recessive genotype and the recessive trait.