4. What are lethal genes?

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Lethal genes are genes at least
one allele ,when present in the
genotype an individual, causes death.
are recessive lethal alleles
dominant lethal alleles. (There also
genes having alleles are dominant
when in but lethal when
in , i.e., the dominance
related the phenotype does not
to the dominance related
lethality.)