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Heterozygote
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an individual organism or cell with two different alleles at a specific gene locus, having inherited different genetic information from each parent
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
heterozygotes
Examples
An organism with one allele for brown eyes and one for blue eyes is a heterozygote for the eye color gene.
