heterozygote
[het-er-uh-zahy-goht, -zig-oht]
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noun Genetics.
a hybrid containing genes for two unlike forms of a characteristic, and therefore not breeding true to type.
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If the individual was really a heterozygote, approximately fifty per cent.
Being Well-BornMichael 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 DrosophilaThomas 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 FowlCharles Benedict Davenport
Some are probably matings of two heterozygotes, others of two recessives, and others still of a recessive with a heterozygote.
Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic FowlCharles Benedict Davenport
But in a heterozygote potency is usually more or less reduced.
Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic FowlCharles Benedict Davenport
heterozygote
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