heterozygote
Meanings
Plural: heterozygotes
Noun
- (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring
- A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.
- A bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring.
Origin / Etymology
From hetero- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and by Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".
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