A hemozygote, more commonly referred to as a homozygote, is an organism that has two identical alleles for a particular gene, one inherited from each parent. This genetic uniformity can result in consistent expression of traits. For example, in a homozygous recessive individual, both alleles are for the recessive trait, leading to the manifestation of that trait in the phenotype. In contrast, a heterozygote has two different alleles for a gene.