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HETEROZYGOTE
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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:
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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