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homozygote en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/

Etymology

From homo- + 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

  1. A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.

Forms

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Antonyms

heterozygote

Relateds

homozygous

Translations (14)

cmn 純合子 /纯合子 (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · sh хомозѝго̄т (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · ru гомозиго́та (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · bg хомозигот (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · pt homozigoto (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · ca homozigot (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · ga homaisiogót (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · fr homozygote (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · it omozigote (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · de Homozygot (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · io homozigoto (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · fi homotsygootti (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · pl homozygota (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci) · sh homozìgōt (a diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci)