What does homozygous mean?
Having two identical copies of a gene or chromosome, one inherited from each parent. In genetics, a term used to describe an organism that has two copies of the same allele at a particular locus.
Example
"The geneticist studied the homozygous offspring to understand the effects of the recessive gene."
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