What are homologous chromosomes?

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homologous chromosomes are chromosomes that are paired during meiosis. They consists of four chromatids. One pair comes from the father and the other, from the mother.The homologous chromosomes are the same size, their centromeres are in the same postition, they have the same number of genes, arranged in the same order.




the main definition is Chromosomes that have the same length, appearance and copies of genes, although the alleles may differ
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