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Homozygote   /hˌoʊmoʊzˈaɪgoʊt/   Listen
Homozygote

noun
1.
(genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic.





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"Homozygote" Quotes from Famous Books



... discovery of Mendel's paper a need was felt for terms of a general nature to express the constitution of individuals in respect of inherited characters, and Bateson accordingly proposed the words homozygote and heterozygote. An individual is said to be homozygous for a given character when it has been formed by two gametes each bearing the character, and all the gametes of a homozygote bear the character in respect of which it is homozygous. When, however, the zygote ...
— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett


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