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noun
A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
A bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
(genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: zygote, fertilized ovum
History
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".
Across languages
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
