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Members of paired chromosomes in #0excludeGlossary cells and homologous chromosomes are similar in size, shape, and function – one of each chromosomal pair is derived from the male plant, the other from the female.
Homologous chromosomes or homologs are a set of one maternal and one paternal chromosome that pair up with each other inside a cell during meiosis. Homologs have the same genes in the same loci, where they provide points along each chromosome that enable a pair of chromosomes to align correctly with each other before separating during meiosis. This is the basis for Mendelian inheritance, which characterizes inheritance patterns of genetic material from an organism to its offspring parent developmental cell at the given time and area.
