OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
GENETICS
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Question
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What is another way of saying “purebred ‘’?
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homozygous
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dominant
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recessive
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heterozygous
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Homozygous Homozygous, as related to genetics, refers to having inherited the same versions (alleles) of a genomic marker from each biological parent. Thus, an individual who is homozygous for a genomic marker has two identical versions of that marker.
Detailed explanation-2: -An organism that has two identical (same) alleles for a trait is called a purebred. purebred in the U.S. two recessive (tt).
Detailed explanation-3: -What is a homozygote? A homozygote is “an organism with identical pairs of genes with respect to any given pair of hereditary characters, and therefore breeding true for that character.” In other words, it’s an organism that has two copies of the same allele for a particular trait.
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