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What word is used to describe the possession of one dominant allele and one recessive allele?

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 The word would be Heterozygous
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Heterozygous is the word used to describe the possession of one dominant allele and one recessive allele. For example, in hybrid tall plant (Tt) genes are present. T is dominant gene and its allele t is recessive gene. In heterozygous organisms dominant allele is expressed and recessive allele is unexpressed in phenotype.

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