homozygote

A Dictionary of Zoology | 1999 | 278 words | Copyright

homozygote An individual that has the same genes at one or more loci. The phenotype of the genes for a particular locus will always be expressed since the two genes at the homologous loci are identical. An individual will breed true at those homologous loci that are homozygous.

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