Heterozygous

Real World Example

Imagine you're trying to decide what to have for lunch, and you're torn between a sandwich and a salad. This is similar to when an organism inherits two different alleles for a trait, one from each parent, creating a scenario where both options are present but only one can be expressed at a time. Just like how you have two different lunch choices but ultimately need to choose one to eat, a heterozygous organism carries two distinct genetic instructions (alleles) for a trait, but typically only one is expressed as the dominant trait.