What does it mean to be homozygeous?

Answer 1

homozygous is a word used to describe when a cell has two identical copies of a gene different varieties of a gene are called alleles (e.g blue eyes allele, brown eyes allele both are genes give eyes a colour but the colour they give is different If a person were to inherit two alleles for brown eyes, i.e one from each parent then they would be Homozygous for brown eyes i.e one from each parent. on blue one brown they would be Heterozygous for eye colour.

Answer 2

Homo meaning the same. To have either homozygeous ressisive or homozygeous domminant allels So either HH or hh NOT Hh (thats heterozygeous) this is all about the stupid subject of genetics, i like it, but its just stupid. :9

Answer 3

Homozygous means that both of the alleles are the same for a given gene or trait. Heterozygous means that you have two different alleles. Often one allele will be dominant over the other... especially if an allele is recessive due to loss of function. But sometimes you can have co-dominance where both alleles contribute to the overall phenotype of the individual. Blood Type is one example of a phenotype that is affected by both alleles.

Answer 4

Being homozygous means having two identical alleles for a particular gene. This can be either two dominant alleles (homozygous dominant) or two recessive alleles (homozygous recessive). Homozygosity often leads to a more predictable expression of traits compared to heterozygosity.

Answer 5

The trait will be expressed in each generation

Answer 6

the alleles are at different location