heterozygote
See also: Heterozygote and hétérozygote
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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".
Pronunciation
editNoun
editheterozygote (plural heterozygotes)
- (genetics) A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.
- (biology) A bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring.
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editTranslations
edita diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci
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German
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Adjective
editheterozygote
- inflection of heterozygot:
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