<P> Mendelian traits in humans concerns how, in Mendelian inheritance, a child receiving a dominant allele from either parent will have the dominant form of the phenotypic trait or characteristic . Only those that received the recessive allele from both parents, known as zygosity, will have the recessive phenotype . Those that receive a dominant allele from one parent and a recessive allele from the other parent will have the dominant form of the trait . Purely Mendelian traits are a tiny minority of all traits, since most phenotypic traits exhibit incomplete dominance, codominance, and contributions from many genes . </P> <P> The recessive phenotype may theoretically skip any number of generations, lying dormant in heterozygous "carrier" individuals until they have children with someone who also has the recessive allele and both pass it on to their child . </P>

Traits that are determined by a single gene