determining if they are either heterozygous or homozygous
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Capital letters represent dominant alleles and lower case letters represent recessive alleles. If you have either two recessive or two dominant alleles you are considered homozygous.  If you have one dominant and one recessive allele you are considered heterozygous.

Genotype Homozygous Heterozygous
AA x  
Aa   x
aa x  

 

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