homozygous

Meanings

Adjective

• having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci
  • "these two fruit flies are homozygous for red eye color"

Adj

• Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele

Antonyms

heterozygous

Related Words

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