heterozygote

[ het-er-uh-zahy-goht, -zig-oht ]

nounGenetics.

a person, animal, or other organism with a pair of differing alleles, one dominant and one recessive, of a particular gene.

Origin of heterozygote

First recorded in 1900–05; hetero- + zygote

Words Nearby heterozygote

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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 Punnett
heterozygote (different yolk), a zygotic individual which contains both members of an allelomorphic pair.
Applied Eugenics | Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
If the individual was really a heterozygote, approximately fifty per cent.
Being Well-Born | Michael F. Guyer
Eosin 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 Morgan
In 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

heterozygote

/ (ˌhɛtərəʊˈzaɪɡəʊt, -ˈzɪɡəʊt) /

noun

an animal or plant that is heterozygous; a hybrid: Compare homozygote

Derived forms of heterozygote

heterozygosis, noun

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