heterozygote
a person, animal, or other organism with a pair of differing alleles, one dominant and one recessive, of a particular gene.
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How to use heterozygote in a sentence
The heterozygote produced by crossing these forms is intermediate in size and appearance.
Mendelism | Reginald Crundall Punnettheterozygote (different yolk), a zygotic individual which contains both members of an allelomorphic pair.
Applied Eugenics | Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill JohnsonIf the individual was really a heterozygote, approximately fifty per cent.
Being Well-Born | Michael F. GuyerEosin is allelomorphic to white and the white-eosin compound or heterozygote has the color of the eosin male.
Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila | Thomas Hunt MorganIn this character, then, dominance almost always fails to show itself in the heterozygote and often fails in pure dominants.
Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl | Charles Benedict Davenport
British Dictionary definitions for heterozygote
/ (ˌhɛtərəʊˈzaɪɡəʊt, -ˈzɪɡəʊt) /
an animal or plant that is heterozygous; a hybrid: Compare homozygote
Derived forms of heterozygote
- heterozygosis, noun
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