What do you call chromosomes that have the same length and carry genes for the same traits?
1 Answer
Dec 4, 2017
Such chromosomes are called HOMOLOGOUS chromosomes.
Explanation:
One member of the homologous pair comes from father and another from mother. Each diploid cell contains chromosomes in homologous pair.
Same genes are located on each chromosome of a homologous pair, but alleles may differ.