Paul Saladino· MD
if you have the egg in the other sperm and within the egg you have a set of DNA and within the sperm you have a set of DNA so upon conception you know you you inherit one of those DNA from your mom and you're inheriting one from your dad so if you have you inherited one aspect that's heterozygous so heterozygous means you have a variation from what is normal then typically found in the population so it's not mutated basically and homozygous means you've inherited a copy from your mom and your dad that is different than the standard population it's different it's not bad it's just different sometimes it's bad but sometimes it's just different