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heterozygote

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.55 in modern English

Syllables
het-erozy-gote
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

A bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring.

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".

Inflected Forms

heterozygotes (plural)

Derived Forms

transheterozygote

Frequently Paired Words

heterozygous

Questions

What does heterozygote mean?
A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.
Where does heterozygote come from?
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".

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