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In genetics, you have certain traits that give you certain features. You get one part from each parent. You may have a dad with brown eyes and a mom with blue. Your dad maybe BB or Bb, and your mom bb. Like in eye color, there's brown, blue, hazel, and other colored eyes. Brown eyes is a dominant trait. So it is homozygous dominant or heterozygous (homozygous dominant = BB, heterozygous = Bb). Blue eyes are a recessive trait (homozygous recessive = bb). So, homozygous are carrying one single part of the trait, and heterozygous is carring a part of both traits.

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Heterozygous: Presence of two alleles of dissimilar characters on a homologous chromosome. (For example; Aa or Bb)

Homozygous: Presence of two alleles of similar characters on a homologous chromosome. (For example; AA or aa)

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Homozygous and heterozygous genes

When allelic combination of dominant or recessive genes is similar at all loci, the individual is homozygous and when one of the component of allelic pair is different from the other at one or several loci the individual is heterozygous.

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Homozygous refers to having identical alleles for a single trait.

Heterozygous refers to having two different alleles for a single trait

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hetrozygous means diffrent alles hetrozygous means diffrent alles or if you r smart, you would know that it means having dis simalar genes

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Recessive and dominant traits

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