–zygous

A suffix meaning “having zygotes of a specified kind,” as in heterozygous.

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In June, he and his colleague Thaddeus Stappenbeck argued in Nature that all mouse studies should use littermate controls: When studying the activity of a particular gene, breed mice with and without that gene by starting with hetero- zygous parents.