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What is the difference between recessive lethal alleles and diminant lethal alleles?

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What is the difference between recessive lethal alleles and diminant lethal alleles?

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Recessive lethal alleles are only fatal if you posses two copies of that particular allele. Dominant lethal alleles will kill you if you only posses one. As a result, these are never inherited (no organism possessing one will survive to breeding age), and will only ever arise by mutation.