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Definition of Heterozygote
1. Noun. (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring.
Definition of Heterozygote
1. Noun. (genetics) A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci. ¹
2. Noun. (biology) A bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heterozygote
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Heterozygote
1. Nucleus, cell or organism with different alleles of one or more specific genes. A heterozygous organism will produce unlike gametes and thus will not breed true. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterozygote
Literary usage of Heterozygote
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genetics; an Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1922)
"The only sure way to identify a heterozygote is by breeding to a recessive and
observing the kind of offspring produced. Peas of the formulas TT and T(t), ..."
2. Genetics: An Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1913)
"THE IDENTIFICATION OF A heterozygote "Homozygote" and "heterozygote" are terms
then descriptive solely of the genotypical constitution of organisms, and, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"Even in the pea it is not the case that the heterozygote always shows the ...
Besides these, there are undoubtedly cases in which the heterozygote may show ..."
4. The Journal of Cancer Research (1916)
"The heterozygous lines, if inbred, will continue to split until the end of time,
giving the same three types. Now, the role of the heterozygote in this ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"(2) In case both parents are heterozygote sound, the sound and the schizophrenic
progeny show in a proportion of three to one as ..."
6. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"My first experiments in this direction led me to conclude that the heterozygote
in such cases was a true two-rowed individual, and that its progeny ..."
7. Mendelism by Reginald Crundall Punnett (1909)
"The theory of gametic purity can be further tested by deducing from it the results
which should follow from crossing the heterozygote with either of the ..."
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