A metabolic reaction requires 10 units of enzymatic activity to proceed. If a dominant allele D can generate 8 units of enzyme and a recessive allele d can generate 2 units of enzyme, what can be said of the dominant wild-type allele?

What will be an ideal response?


D is haploinsufficient.

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