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HOMOZYGOSITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("homozygosity" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Antonym:
heterozygosity (the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene)
Derivation:
homozygous (having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci)
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