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homozygote

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/

noun

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".

  1. A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.