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heterozygous
[ het-er-uh-zahy-guhs ]
adjective
- relating to or being a heterozygote, an organism that possesses a pair of differing alleles, one dominant and one recessive, of a particular gene.
heterozygous
/ ˌhɛtərəʊˈzaɪɡəs /
adjective
- See homozygousgenetics (of an organism) having different alleles for any one gene Compare homozygous
heterozygous for eye colour
heterozygous
/ hĕt′ər-ə-zī′gəs /
- Relating to a cell that has two different alleles at corresponding positions on homologous chromosomes.
- Compare homozygous
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Other Words From
- het·er·o·zy·gos·i·ty [het-, uh, -roh-zahy-, gos, -i-tee], noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of heterozygous1
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Example Sentences
This would indicate that the frog belongs to those animals in which the male is heterozygous for sex.
Being heterozygous for two factors they will produce four kinds of gametes in equal numbers, viz.
Such birds being heterozygous for the inhibitor factor, should be whites showing some coloured "ticks."
The cross between a heterozygous dominant and a recessive also leads to equal numbers of recessives and of heterozygous dominants.
There exists repulsion between the factors G and F in a zygote which is heterozygous for them both.
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