homologous chromosomes can be defined as

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subhasundar1022 · Accepted Answer

Dear aspirant,

Homologous Chromosomes are, a pair of chromosomes that carry the genes resembling the same characteristics of the same quality.

It has two pieces of DNA within a diploid organism which carry the same genes, one from each parental source.

For example, they have approximately the same length, centromere position, and staining pattern, for genes with the same corresponding loci.

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