homozygous traits

How Do You Know If A Dominant Trait Is Homozygous Or Heterozygous?

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How Do You Know If A Dominant Trait Is Homozygous Or Heterozygous? To identify whether an organism exhibiting a dominant trait is homozygous or heterozygous for a specific allele, a scientist can perform a test cross. The organism in question is crossed with an organism that is homozygous for the recessive trait How do you

What Does Homozygous Mean For Horses?

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What Does Homozygous Mean For Horses? If a horse carries two copies of the same allele for a gene, he is homozygous (for instance, E/E or e/e, with the lowercase letters indicating recessive genes, and capital letters signifying dominant) for that trait. If he carries one dominant and one recessive allele, then he is heterozygous