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heterozygote
[ het-er-uh-zahy-goht, -zig-oht ]
noun
- a person, animal, or other organism with a pair of differing alleles, one dominant and one recessive, of a particular gene.
heterozygote
/ ˌhɛtərəʊˈzaɪɡəʊt; -ˈzɪɡəʊt /
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Derived Forms
- ˌheterozyˈgosis, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of heterozygote1
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Example Sentences
The heterozygote produced by crossing these forms is intermediate in size and appearance.
Heterozygote (different yolk), a zygotic individual which contains both members of an allelomorphic pair.
If the individual was really a heterozygote, approximately fifty per cent.
Eosin is allelomorphic to white and the white-eosin compound or heterozygote has the color of the eosin male.
In this character, then, dominance almost always fails to show itself in the heterozygote and often fails in pure dominants.
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