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Homozygote

Homozygote cellss are diploid or polyploid and have the same alleles at a locus (position) on homologous chromosomes.

When a human is referred to as being homozygous for a specific gene, it means that he or she carries two identical copies of that gene on the two corresponding chromosomes.

See also: heterozygote.

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