heterozygote
heterozygote · heterozygotes
гетерозигота
Heterozygot
A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic lociA diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.
Meaning
2 sensesA diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.
Heterozygot
гетерозиго́таgetɛrozigóta
A bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring.
(genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring
Translations
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By meaning 1
a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci:
Origin
From hetero- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca SaunFrom hetero- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".
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Forms
plural: heterozygotes| Singular | heterozygote |
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Word family
2 related wordsRelatedheterozygous
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