Definition of Homozygosis

1. [n -GOSES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Homozygosis

homotype
homotypes
homotypic
homotypic cortex
homotypical
homotypy
homousious
homovalent
homovanillic acid
homovanillic acid test
homozeotrope
homozoic
homozygoses
homozygosis (current term)
homozygosities
homozygosity
homozygote
homozygotes
homozygotic
homozygous
homozygous achondroplasia
homozygous by descent
homozygously
homs
homuncle
homuncles
homuncular
homunculi

Literary usage of Homozygosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Application of Some of the Principles of Heredity to Plant Breeding by William Jasper Spillman (1909)
"LATENCY DUE TO homozygosis. This group of facts might perhaps be better described as "patency due to heterozygosis." It includes those cases where a ..."

2. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"The rate of obtaining homozygosis is considered important since it measures ... 11 is shown that selection produces progress toward perfect homozygosis only ..."

3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1912)
"Complete homozygosis is approached as a variable approaching a limit. It may be illustrated by the old story of the dog decreasing the distance from the ..."

4. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"... founded his great theory are probably not mutations at all but are, as Muller (1917) has said, "merely the emergence into a state of homozygosis, ..."

5. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1916)
"... of studying the degree of assortative mating which occurs in the reproduction of wild forms, for homogamy tends automatically to produce homozygosis. ..."

6. Genetics and Eugenics: A Text-book for Students of Biology and a Reference by William Ernest Castle, Gregor Mendel (1916)
"The progress toward homozygosis, it will be observed is rapid in self-fertilization, heterozygotes being only one-tenth of one per cent after 10 generations ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1905)
"The other possibility is that this phenomenon is due to simultaneous homozygosis of independent ..."

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