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.

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Same genes are located on each chromosome of a homologous pair, but alleles may differ.

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