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Article · Jun 7, 2026 · Citadel Culebra Faculty

Dominant, Recessive, Co-Dom: Morph Genetics in Plain English

Punnett squares without the headache. How traits actually pass to the next generation.

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Morph genetics scares people off with jargon, but the core ideas are simple and visual. Once you understand how dominant, recessive, and co-dominant traits behave, a whole catalog of pairings stops being magic and starts being math.

What this resource covers — alleles and genes, dominant vs. recessive vs. co-dominant, reading a Punnett square, het animals, and predicting clutch odds.

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