So 24 beads of white and 24 beads of red is that haterozygous or homozygous genotype
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No, having 24 white beads and 24 red beads in a collection is neither heterozygous nor homozygous.
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Heterozygous** and homozygous describe the genotype (the pair of alleles) of a single individual.
A collection of beads is just a group of separate items.
Each individual bead would have its own genotype (e.g., one red bead might be RR, another red bead might be Rr, and a white bead would be rr).
The total number of red beads versus white beads in a collection doesn't tell us the genetic makeup of any single bead, nor does it describe the collection itself in genetic terms.
So, the collection of 24 red and 24 white beads is simply a collection, not a genotype.
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