Do homologous chromosomes have identical genes?

No they don't. Geneticists number the chromosomes. In humans there are chromosomes numbered 1 to 23 plus the sex chromsomes. In the diploid cell each chromosome is found as a pair. read more

Yes, they have the same genes, but they don’t have all the same alleles. A gene codes for a character, such as height in garden pea plants. read more

Best Answer: Homologous chromosomes have the same number of genes but they may be the same or different forms (= alleles) depending on what they received from each parent when the two sets of chromosomes combined at fertilisation. read more

The maternal and paternal chromosomes in a homologous pair have the same genes at the same loci, but possibly different alleles. A couple of 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. read more