homozygote

English

Etymology

From homo- +‎ 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".

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/

Noun

homozygote (plural homozygotes)

(genetics) A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.
Antonym: heterozygote

Related terms

homozygous

Translations

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

Catalan: homozigot m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 純合子／纯合子 (zh) (chúnhézǐ)
Finnish: homotsygootti (fi)
French: homozygote (fr) m or f
German: Homozygote m
Ido: homozigoto
Irish: homaisiogót m
Italian: omozigote (it) m
Portuguese: homozigoto m
Russian: гомозиго́та (ru) f (gomozigóta)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хомозѝго̄т m

Roman: homozìgōt (sh) m

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Adjective

homozygote

inflection of homozygot:
1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
2. strong nominative/accusative plural
3. weak nominative all-gender singular
4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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