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Distinguish between homozygous and heterozygous plant.

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In a homozygous plant, a gene pair (alleles) contains two identical genes controlling similar trait of a character.
In heterozygous plant, a gene pair (alleles) contains two different genes controlling different traits of a character in an organism.

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