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Can dogs have recessive genes show up in later generations?
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Dogs are diploid, so yes. Diploid means that they have two sets of every gene, like every animal. When a living thing has more than one set of genes, one version, or allele, can be dominant to the other. If an organism has one dominant allele and one recessive allele, they will look just like one that has two dominant alleles and no recessive, masking the presence of the recessive trait. When two  doggos mate and each have only 1 recessive allele, there is a chance that their offspring will only have 2 of the recessive alleles, displaying the trait, and skipping a generation.