Question

If a person has a recessive allele for a disorder and that allele is masked by the presence of a normal dominant allele, this personIf a person has a recessive allele for a disorder and that allele is masked by the presence of a normal dominant allele, this person:_________.

Answer 1

Is a carrier.

Step-by-step explanation:

In genetic engineering, a carrier is simply describes an organism that carries two different forms (alleles) of a recessive gene (alleles of a gene linked to a recessive trait) and is thus heterozygous for that the recessive gene.

Even though carriers may act to convey and maintain recessive genes within a population by passing them on to offspring, the carriers themselves are not affected by the recessive trait associated with the recessive gene.