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A Heterozygote is an organism which has two different copies of a particular allele in a particular locus on their genome. This is usually (except in the case of mutations) due to inheritance of a different version of the allele from each of the parent organisms. | |||
Normally a heterozygote will have one dominant allele and one recessive allele in the locus in question which leads to the dominant phenotype being expressed and the recessive phenotype being silenced - but the organism will have varied offspring because it will pass on only one of the alleles to each child/each member of the following generation. <ref>Ron C. (2008)A Litigator's Guide to DNA(e-book) &lt;Accessed on: 20th Oct 2015&gt;</ref>. | |||
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Revision as of 13:53, 18 October 2016
A Heterozygote is an organism which has two different copies of a particular allele in a particular locus on their genome. This is usually (except in the case of mutations) due to inheritance of a different version of the allele from each of the parent organisms.
Normally a heterozygote will have one dominant allele and one recessive allele in the locus in question which leads to the dominant phenotype being expressed and the recessive phenotype being silenced - but the organism will have varied offspring because it will pass on only one of the alleles to each child/each member of the following generation. [1].
References
- ↑ Ron C. (2008)A Litigator's Guide to DNA(e-book) <Accessed on: 20th Oct 2015>