Defenition of the word heterozygote
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Defenition of the word heterozygote
- An individual organism that possesses different alleles at a locus.
- (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring
Hypernyms for the word heterozygote
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- being
- fertilized ovum
- life form
- living thing
- organism
- zygote
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