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homozygote

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/Part of speech nounSorted eghmoootyzStarts with HEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic

Word origin

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".

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