Examples
These traits include:
- Ability to taste phenylthiocarbamide (dominant)
- Ability to smell (bitter almond-like) hydrogen cyanide (recessive)
- Albinism (recessive)
- Brachydactyly (shortness of fingers and toes)
- Wet (dominant) or dry (recessive) earwax, dry is found mostly in Asians and Native Americans.
Read more about this topic: List Of Mendelian Traits In Humans
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