HyperDic: heterozygote

English > 1 sense of the word heterozygote:
NOUNbodyheterozygote(genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring
English > heterozygote: 1 sense > noun 1, body
Meaning(genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring.
Categorygenetics, genetic scienceThe branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms
Broaderzygote, fertilized ovum(genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)
Spanishheterocigoto, heterozigoto
Catalanheterozigot

©2001-24 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact

English | Spanish | Catalan
Privacy | Robots

Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict