Question

in a group of chickens, some individuals have white legs and others have yellow legs. in this group, the gene for the leg color trait has two alleles. the allele l is for white legs, and the allele l is for yellow legs.
chitters is a chicken from this group. chitterss phenotype for the leg color trait is white legs. chitterss genotype for the leg color gene is ll.
based on this information, complete the following statement.
chitters is __________ for the leg color gene.
heterozygous
homozygous

Explanation:

An organism with two different alleles for a gene is defined as heterozygous. Chitters has the genotype $Ll$, which consists of two distinct alleles ($L$ and $l$) for the leg color gene.

Answer:

heterozygous