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Heterozygote Moderate

Heterozygote has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring

2

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

See Also
heterozygous allele copies heterozygosity loci diploid heterozygotes individual
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
zygote
Rhyming Words
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