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  1. In a living organism, having two different
  2. alleles for a given trait. In homozygous
  3. organisms, by contrast, both chromosomes
  4. carry the same allele. In an outbreeding
  5. population an individual organism will
  6. generally be heterozygous for some genes but
  7. homozygous for others.
  8.