homozygote

English

Etymology

From homo- +‎ 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".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/

Noun

homozygote (plural homozygotes)

1. (genetics) A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.

   Antonym: heterozygote

Related terms

• homozygous

Translations

a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci

• Catalan: homozigot m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 純合子／纯合子 (zh) (chúnhézǐ)

• Finnish: homotsygootti (fi)
• French: homozygote (fr) m or f
• German: Homozygote m
• Ido: homozigoto
• Irish: homaisiogót m
• Italian: omozigote (it) m
• Portuguese: homozigoto m
• Russian: гомозиго́та (ru) f (gomozigóta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хомозѝго̄т m

  Roman: homozìgōt (sh) m

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

homozygote

1. inflection of homozygot:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular