What makes a dominant gene dominant?

Subject: What makes a dominant gene dominant?

Date: Tue Oct 21 10:03:13 1997
Posted by Brian Early
Grade level: 10-12
School: Granite Bay HS
City: Granite Bay State/Province: CA
Country: USA
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 877446193.Ge

Message:

I know that we call a dominant gene dominant because in a heterozygous 
genotype the dominant gene is what is expressed, thus it's dominant.  
But at the molecular level, what is it about that gene such that it is 
dominant over other alleles?

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