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heterozygous

Term: heterozygous

Origin: Anc Greek

??????/heteros(=different, other)

?????/zygos(=yoke)

Coined:

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William Bateson (1861 ?1926)

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The term introduced in 1902 by a British geneticist W Bateson (1861 ?1926) and British botanist and plant geneticist Edith Rebecca Saunders (1865?1945) for a zygote, or a diploid individual derived from it, which carries both members of a pair of alleles.

Definition:

The individual who carries two different alleles at corresponding loci on homologous chromosomes.

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- Allele , Allelomorph
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- Genetics
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