heterozygote

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heterozygote

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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".

noun heterozygotes

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.

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noun a diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci

Español	heterocigoto
Português	heterozigoto
Français	hétérozygote
Deutsch	Heterozygot
Italiano	eterozigote
Русский	гетерозиго́та getɛrozigóta

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@misc{heterozygote_2026,
  title = {heterozygote},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/heterozygote},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}