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What is homozygous ?

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an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allel is homozygous.

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homozygous is a word that refers to a particular gene that has identical alleles on both homologous chromosomes. it is referred to by two capital letters (XX) for a dominant trait and two lowercase letters (xx) for recessive trait.

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