Horns are recessive; hornless is dominant. How might this challenge our understanding

of a dominant trait?

Please find the explanation below

Explanation:

Traits are physically observed features of an organism. They are coded for and determined by genes, which comes in two forms called ALLELE. Each allele is responsible for a particular phenotype that makes up a trait. A dominant trait is the one which is expressed over another in a heterozygous state i.e. combined state of the two different alleles that encodes the two different traits respectively.

In this question, having horns is a recessive trait while being hornless is a dominant trait. The two traits are encoded by different alleles of the same gene. When the two different alleles combine in the organism's genotype, the dominant trait (hornless) will express itself over its contrasting trait (horn), hence, the animal will be phenotypically hornless. The allele that encodes hornlessness is said to be the dominant allele while hornlessness is the dominant trait.

Note that, in this dominance inheritance pattern, the recessive trait i.e. horned, will only phenotypically be expressed when the recessive allele is homozygous i.e. same in the organism's genotype.

answer : one can design an experiment using a liquid and an additive that can be added to the liquid and observe the chemical changes in the reaction species.

one would need a beaker which is filled with a known amount of the liquid in which thermometer is placed to measure the temperature changes; after addition of the additive to the liquid solution one can note down the temperature change and find whether the reaction is endothermic or exothermic in nature. by subtracting the initial temperature value with the final temperature one can find the temperature changes.

various combinations of liquid and additive can be used. liquid in this case can be a known quantity of water and additives can be epsom salt or without epsom salt the experiment can be conducted to notice the changes. water and ice, hydrogen peroxide and dry yeast, vinegar and baking soda,etc.

a is the correct answer