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What are genes that code for a pair of contrasting characters called?


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Alleles:

  1. A variant of the same nucleotide sequence that encodes the synthesis of a gene product at the same location on a lengthy DNA molecule is known as an allele.
  2. If a person contains a pair of the same alleles, then it is called homozygous.
  3. If the two alleles are different, it is termed as heterozygous.

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