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homologous [1]

term to describe chromosomes that are chomosome pairs. Of the pair, one chromosome comes from the mother and the other is from the father. They carry similar but not identical information.

Source URL (modified on December 6, 2016): https://discoveringthegenome.org/genomics-glossary/homologous

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