18. Why can it be said that a
recessive allele can remain
hidden in the phenotype of an
individual and revealed only
when manifested in
homozygosity in the
offspring?

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A recessive allele can hidden
because it does manifest in
heterozygous individual, .e., it may be
present the genotype but not
in the phenotype. When
allele is transmitted to offspring and
forms homozygous with
another recessive allele other
chromosomal lineage the
characteristics that come out its
existence.