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A particular plant is said to be homozygous for seed color. whatdoes this mean?

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In other words the genes are the same for seed color so its going to be both upper case or both lower case.
homo=same
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If you look at the prefix of homozygous, it "homo" which means the same. So if a particular plant is said to be homozygous for seed color, the alleles are the same.


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