HETEROZYGOTE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("heterozygote" is a kind of...):

fertilized ovum; zygote ((genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell))

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

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