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homozygosis
[hoh-m
uh
-zahy-
goh
-sis, -zi-, hom-
uh
-]
WORD ORIGIN
noun
Biology
.
the state of being a homozygote.
Origin of
homozygosis
1900–05;
homo-
+
Greek
zýgōsis;
see
zygo-
,
-osis
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