heterozygote
Meanings
noun
- 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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Etymology
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".
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