Associations to the word «Homozygous»

Wiktionary

HOMOZYGOUS, adjective. Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele

Dictionary definition

HOMOZYGOUS, adjective. Having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci; "these two fruit flies are homozygous for red eye color".

Wise words

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Nathaniel Hawthorne