homozygote

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Scrabble points
28
Words With Friends
28
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/

Definition of homozygote

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

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

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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".

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