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What does homozygous mean?

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  1. Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele
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Four of the eight QTL for reduced homozygous seed set are colocated with QTL associated with reduced male fertility.
Transformants were induced to sporulate and the resulting tetrads were dissected to generate homozygous deletions.
Testing of two PRA affected animals within a 17th breed, the bull mastiff, revealed one heterozygote and one homozygous normal animal.
To simplify the analysis, mate the dihybrid with a homozygous recessive strain.
The alb1 mutation is recessive and homozygous albino plants are white and die at the seedling stage.
One young insertion was found to be homozygous in two wild-type strains and absent in six others.

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