Heterozygotes: do not get recessive disorders have two different copies of a gene by carrying a disease but showing health, the heterozygote is often immune to other diseases all of these
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Heterozygotes possess two different alleles for a particular gene. This means they have one dominant allele and one recessive allele. Show more…
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