homozygote
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Etymology edit
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".
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Noun edit
homozygote (plural homozygotes)
- (genetics) A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.
- Antonym: heterozygote
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a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci
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homozygote
- inflection of homozygot: