Answer to Question #60295 in Genetics for Sanjukta Ghosh
Question #60295
What are balanced lethal. Please do explain with an example and simple english.
Expert's answer
Balanced lethal is a true-breeding heterozygous organism maintained in a stable state through the existence of different lethals on each of a pair of homologous chromosomes and resulting in loss of all homozygotes.
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Does it mean that balanced lethal is an organism which survives due to the existence of heterozygosity of lethal alleles?
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