homozygous

(adjective)

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

Related Terms

  • Complementation
  • mutation

Examples of homozygous in the following topics:

  • Complementation

    • Complementation refers to a relationship between two different strains of an organism which both have homozygous recessive mutations.
    • In genetics, complementation refers to a relationship between two different strains of an organism which both have homozygous recessive mutations that produce the same phenotype (for example, a change in wing structure in flies) but which do not reside on the same (homologous) gene.
  • Gene Families

    • The right side illustrates a second round of unequal crossing over that can occur in a genome that is homozygous of the original duplicated chromosome.
Subjects
  • Accounting
  • Algebra
  • Art History
  • Biology
  • Business
  • Calculus
  • Chemistry
  • Communications
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Microbiology
  • Physics
  • Physiology
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Statistics
  • U.S. History
  • World History
  • Writing

Except where noted, content and user contributions on this site are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 with attribution required.