Biology as Poetry: Genetics

Bacteriophage Ecology Group

Homozygous Recessive

Diploid organism possession of two identical alleles where the phenotype associated with those alleles is only observed given this state.

That is, a recessive trait is only observed in the homozygous recessive state. This would be aa where a is a recessive allele.

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