Not necessarily. I know some people hate wikipedia but I see no fault here so I am stealing it.
The words homozygous, heterozygous, and hemizygous are used to describe the genotype of a diploid organism at a single locus on the DNA. Simply stated, homozygous describes a genotype consisting of two identical alleles at a given locus, heterozygous describes a genotype consisting of two different alleles at a locus
Now if you had a lesser x mojave BEL then the single locus responsible for the super form has one mojave gene and one lesser gene. This would be a double het at a single locus, not a homozygous. If you disagree please give me a reason not a simple "Super = Homozygous". Where as this is most commonly the case I think its a gross simplification when discussing the genetics of a BEL









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