heterozygosis

[ het-uh-roh-zahy-goh-sis ]

nounBiology.
  1. the state of being a heterozygote.

Origin of heterozygosis

1
First recorded in 1900–05; hetero- + zygosis

Words Nearby heterozygosis

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