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  2. Zygosity - Wikipedia

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    The words homozygous, heterozygous, and hemizygous are used to describe the genotype of a diploid organism at a single locus on the DNA. Homozygous describes a genotype consisting of two identical alleles at a given locus, heterozygous describes a genotype consisting of two different alleles at a locus, hemizygous describes a genotype consisting of only a single copy of a particular gene in an ...

  3. Compound heterozygosity - Wikipedia

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    In medical genetics, compound heterozygosity is the condition of having two or more heterogeneous recessive alleles at a particular locus that can cause genetic disease in a heterozygous state; that is, an organism is a compound heterozygote when it has two recessive alleles for the same gene, but with those two alleles being different from each other (for example, both alleles might be ...

  4. Genotype - Wikipedia

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    In the example on the right, both parents are heterozygous, with a genotype of Bb. The offspring can inherit a dominant allele from each parent, making them homozygous with a genotype of BB. The offspring can inherit a dominant allele from one parent and a recessive allele from the other parent, making them heterozygous with a genotype of Bb.

  5. Locus (genetics) - Wikipedia

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    Diploid and polyploid cells whose chromosomes have the same allele at a given locus are called homozygous with respect to that locus, while those that have different alleles at a given locus are called heterozygous. [3] The ordered list of loci known for a particular genome is called a gene map.

  6. Major histocompatibility complex and sexual selection

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    It is proposed that there is a chemo-attraction system responsible for the egg itself being able to discriminate and selectively choose between MHC-heterozygous and MHC-homozygous males. [34] Contrary to the Atlantic salmon and the Arctic char, red junglefowl Gallus gallus males instead of females exert cryptic preference. Male junglefowl ...

  7. Monohybrid cross - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: Inheritance pattern of dominant (red) and recessive (white) phenotypes when each parent (1) is homozygous for either the dominant or recessive trait. All members of the F 1 generation are heterozygous and share the same dominant phenotype (2), while the F 2 generation exhibits a 6:2 ratio of dominant to recessive phenotypes (3).

  8. Test cross - Wikipedia

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    Under the law of dominance in genetics, an individual expressing a dominant phenotype could contain either two copies of the dominant allele (homozygous dominant) or one copy of each dominant and recessive allele (heterozygous dominant). [1] By performing a test cross, one can determine whether the individual is heterozygous or homozygous ...

  9. Loss of heterozygosity - Wikipedia

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    A diploid population of 10 individuals, that bottlenecked down to three individuals repeatedly, resulted in all individuals homozygous. In genetics , loss of heterozygosity ( LOH ) is a type of genetic abnormality in diploid organisms in which one copy of an entire gene and its surrounding chromosomal region are lost. [ 1 ]