Asked by esmerlada

How does an organism inherit a recessive trait?

A. The organism inherits the recessive allele from one parent
B. The organism inherits the recessive allele from both parents
C. The organism fails to inherit the alleles for the trait from either parents
D. The organism gets the trait from the environment

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
B. The organism inherits the recessive allele from both parents.

Explanation: A recessive trait is expressed only when the organism is homozygous recessive (has two copies of the recessive allele). If it has only one recessive and one dominant allele (heterozygous), the dominant allele masks the recessive trait.