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heterozygote

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

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  • Homozygotes and heterozygotes at individual sites were distinguished by their chromatographic patterns.
  • A final, important point is that even with just those two simple mutations the process is convoluted almost to the point of incoherence.17 Even with just the sickle and C genes—with heterozygote versus homozygote advantage and with varying detrimental effects—the interplay of the mutant and normal genes is chaotic and tangled. The Edge of Evolution
  • The individual tested was a heterozygote, necessarily possessing a copy of each allele.
  • Results For the same SNP locus, the homozygote showed a single product peak, and the heterozygote showed two product peaks with different length.
  • Expression in heterozygotes and homozygotes is apparently identical.
  • Indeed, usually the marker phenotypes do not provide the gametic phase of the chromosomes (which allele originates from which parent), for example, in the case of a double or multiple heterozygote.
  • However, after several backcrosses, its heterozygotes could be distinguished from the dominant homozygotes.
  • Only at the Mpi locus was there a slight suggestion of a deficiency of heterozygotes.
  • For example, in inbred populations there may be very few heterozygotes but several different homozygotes.
  • Heterozygotes have a clearly smaller eye with a distinctive triangular shaped pupil.
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