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?

Expert's answer

Yes. Balanced lethal is an organism which survives due to the existence of heterozygosity of lethal alleles.

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