Recent Examples on the WebMost of you have seen a Punnet square, whereby heterozygous parents will produce offspring in ratios where 50% are heterozygous, and 25% one homozygote and 25% another.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010 Interestingly the persistent individual in the Longar location also a homozygote.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2012 Another reason may be that in the original parental lineages there was a higher fraction of alleles which were deleterious in homozygote genotypes.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010 The mother is probably a heteozygote, and the father is a homozygote.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2011 But consider a scenario where one parent is a heterozygote, and the other a homozygote for the dominant trait.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010 For one thing, 35delG homozygotes sometimes only have mild hearing impairment.—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2019 These people, known as CCR5Δ32 homozygotes, appear healthy and are highly resistant to HIV infection.—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 1 Aug. 2019 What’s more, Lulu is clearly not a CCR5Δ32 homozygote, so the findings don’t apply to her.—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 1 Aug. 2019
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