Question

1. A heterozygous individual can produce offspring with recessive alleles.

Why does this occur?

Answer 1

It need to reproduce

Explanation: it has one recessive allele so whether it reproduces with another heterozygous or h mzygous the offspring could end up with that recessive allele

if the question was a recessive phenotype they would need to find another heterozygous individual to put together the 2 recessive alleles to show the recessive trait