Answer to Question #60342 in Genetics for Sanjukta Ghosh

Question #60342
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.
I don't get this definition completely. Does this mean that balanced lethal is an organism which survives due to the existence of heterozygosity of lethal alleles?
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Expert's answer
2016-06-13T08:13:02-0400
Yes. Balanced lethal is an organism which survives due to the existence of heterozygosity of lethal alleles.

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