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There’s a lot more to it than the simple traits we learned about in high school biology. Those lessons taught us that different versions of a gene can be dominant (what you see) or recessive (what you ...

Behold, a pale horse. Well, not quite, but it’s close enough. Seeing an all-white deer is almost as rare as seeing a unicorn.

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However, the gene for the disease can be passed on. For information about the chances of passing on the gene for the disease or of having a child with the disease, go to the page Recessive hereditary ...