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A heterozygote is an [[organism|organism]] which has two different copies of&nbsp;a particular [[allele|allele]] in a particular [[Locus|locus]] on their [[Genome|genome]]. This is usually (except in the case of [[Mutations|mutations]]) due to inheritance of a different version of the allele from each of the [[parent organism|parent organisms]]. 

Normally a heterozygote will have one dominant allele and one [[recessive allele|recessive allele]] in the locus in question which leads to the [[dominant phenotype|dominant phenotype]] being expressed and the [[recessive phenotype|recessive phenotype]] being silenced -&nbsp;but the organism will have&nbsp;varied offspring&nbsp;because it will pass on only one of the alleles&nbsp;to each child/each member&nbsp;of the following generation&nbsp;<ref>Ron C. (2008)A Litigator's Guide to DNA(e-book) &amp;amp;lt;Accessed on: 20th Oct 2015&amp;amp;gt;</ref>. 

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