Understand epistasis - AP Biology

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In a case of recessive epistasis, A is epistatic to B, and B is dominant to b, which genotype will give the dominant phenotype?

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As this is recessive epistasis, only the genotype aa will mask gene B (Aa will not mask B). BB or Bb will give the dominant phenotype as B is dominant to b. Thus, AaBb will yield the dominant phenotype.

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