Homozygote

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Food Biotechnology

An organism whose genotype is characterized by two identical alleles of a gene. See Allele, Genotype.

Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn — An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary

An individual that has two copies of the same allele for a given gene on its two homologous chromosome s. The condition is termed "homozygous". Opposite: heterozygote.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture

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Human Genome

An organism that has two identical alleles of a gene. See also: heterozygote

Human Genome Project — Human Genome Project