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Give a technical name to a pair of chromosomes carrying dissimilar alleles for a particular character.


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Heterozygous pair of chromosomes:

  1. A pair of chromosomes containing different alleles of the same feature is called heterozygous.
  2. When a person is heterozygous for a genomic marker, he or she has two copies of that marker.

Final answer: Heterozygous chromosome is the name of a pair of chromosomes carrying dissimilar alleles for a particular character.


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