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A person with a heterozygous gene has one dominant allele, usually represented by a capital letter, and a recessive allele, which is usually represented with a lowercase letter. So an example of a heterozygous gene would be Rr
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What is a heterozygous person called?
Generally a heterozygous person is called a heterozygote. Although, they may also be called a gene carrier.
What does it mean to be heterozygous for a gene?
homozygous mutant means both alleles of a gene are mutated.
What is a gene with two different alleles?
hybrid or heterozygous.
Is A heterozygous pair of alleles is identical?
When there are heterozygous alleles for a gene thy code for a different expression of the gene. For example, the gene to taste PTC paper is a single gene trait. A person will have two copies (or alleles) for that gene (one from their mothers DNA, one from their father). There are two possible expressions for this gene - either you can taste the chemical or you cannot. When one allele is for tasting, and the other for not tasting, this is known as heterozygous. Both alleles are relating to the same gene but they giving different instructions and are thus not identical. When this happens, the dominant gene wins - in this case tasting is expressed. If the alleles are identical, they are known as homozygous and they are identical.
What does does heterozygous mean?
Heterozygous means that you are carrying 1 dominant trait and 1 recessive trait.If an allelic pair has one dominant and other recessive gene it is called heterozygous.
What is a heterozygous person called?
Generally a heterozygous person is called a heterozygote. Although, they may also be called a gene carrier.
What gene is heterozygous?
a heterozygous gene is a gene with a genotype with two different letters. For example, Hh rather then hh, HH (which are homozygous). Hope this helps. =)
What is an example of a heterozygous chromosome?
It's the gene that would be heterozygous not the chromosome.
What does it mean to be heterozygous for a gene?
homozygous mutant means both alleles of a gene are mutated.
Is being heterozygous a serious medical issue?
Everyone is heterozygous at many genetic loci. It means the gene you got from your mother is different from the gene you got from your father. Since you got one chromosome (one gene) from each parent, there's a reasonable chance you'l be heterozygous in genes where there are different genes in the population. Depending on the gene, heterozygous can be an advantage - a "good" gene can overcome a "bad" gene.
It an organism has two alleles that are different then the individual is?
heterozygous for that specific gene.
What do you call a person who has one dominant and one recessive copy of a gene?
We call a gene that has two different alleles heterozygous.
Have a dominant and a recessive gene in a gene pair is known as?
Being heterozygous.
What alleles of a gene pair are different?
heterozygous
When alleles of a gene are different what is the individual?
heterozygous
What does being heterozygous for some genetic trait mean?
the 2 alleles of the gene for the trait are different on the 2 homologous chromosomesBeing heterozygous for a trait means that they have different alleles for a trait. For instance: Tt would be heterozygous and TT or tt would be homozygous because they are both eitehr little or big t's.it mean the gene is not pure or for example suppose a person is blood group A but actually he is having A and O; because O is recessive trait the gene express the A trait instead, making the person having blood group A.
What is heterozygous?
Heterozygous refers to alleles that are not the same. For example, lets pretend that the gene for hair color is H for brown hair and h for blond hair. If someone was HH, they would be homozygous because the two alleles of the gene are the same. If a person was blond, their genes would have to be hh, which is homozygous recessive. Heterozygous is when the alleles are different, like so: Hh.
