What is the difference between autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance?

Input required: In dominant disorders, the dominant member of the gene pair controls how the gene activities are expressed, so the other gene can carry the same or normal information.In recessive disorders, the normal gene compensates for the bad information in the other gene, allowing a person to function normally unless both genes carry the bad information.

2 copies of genes: We all have two copies of each gene in our chromosomes. In autosomal dominant conditions you only need one copy of the gene to have the disease. In autosomal recessive conditions you need two copies in order to have the disease. It is called recessive because people with only one copy do not have the disease, that is the conditions recedes or is hidden.