Question

Matched chromosomes carrying information about the same characteristics in the organism are called _____ chromosomes.

homozygous
homologous
diploid
haploid

Answer 1

Since homologous chromosomes do not come from the same organism and are not identical, matched chromosomes carrying information about the same characteristics in the organism are called homologous chromosomes.

Answer 2

The correct answer would be homologous chromosomes.

Homologous chromosomes refer to the pair of chromosomes in which one chromosome is inherited from father and the other one is inherited from the mother.

They are similar in length, centromere location and contain the same set of genes that too on the same loci.

The genes on the same loci contain information about the same characteristics in an organism, however, they may contain different alleles associated with the same character.