heterozygote en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From hetero- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".
Meanings
- A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.
- A bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring.
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| heterozygotes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (13)
es heterocigoto (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · fr hétérozygote (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · sh heterozìgōt (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · it eterozigote (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · fi heterotsygootti (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · ru гетерозиго́та (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · gd eadar-chuing (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · de Heterozygot (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · pt heterozigoto (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · bg хетерозигот (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · sh хетерозѝго̄т (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · ga heitrisiogót (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci) · pl heterozygota (a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci)