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Homozygote
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an individual organism or cell with two identical alleles at a specific gene locus, having inherited the same genetic information from both parents
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
homozygotes
Examples
An organism with two alleles for brown eyes is a homozygote for the eye color gene.
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