[
US
/ˌhɛtɝəˈzaɪɡəs/
]
ADJECTIVE
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having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci
heterozygous for eye color
How To Use heterozygous In A Sentence
- In heterozygous females, pre-B cells whose active X chromosome expresses the mutant gene would not terminally differentiate and proliferate.
- We sequenced genomic DNA from heterozygous animals in an attempt to identify the remaining mutations.
- In practice this model could be extended to include inferences from crosses with resulting heterozygous individuals, such as backcrosses or intercrosses.
- CRANE: In the first place, the chromosomes are so small and there are so many, that you can't identify them, and you can't tell which genes, and they have got a heterozygous population, and the variety is self-sterile and has to be cross-pollinated, so there is only one way from a horticultural standpoint by which we can do anything, and that is through clones. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
- An allele does not care if it is in a half - blooded ( heterozygous ) or pure - blooded ( homozygous ) individual.
- When an organism is heterozygous for a trait, the resulting phenotype for that trait expresses only the dominant allele .
- heterozygous for eye color
- Ten wild-type females crossed with mutant males gave birth to 22 heterozygous mutant mouse pups and 30 wild-type littermates, which were used as control pups.
- The mutation was heterozygous and replacing a highly conserved Asn residue with a Ser. Naturejobs - All Jobs
- Animals developed as perfectly normal hermaphrodites if derived from a heterozygous hermaphrodite mother.