noun
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an organism or cell having two different alleles at a particular gene locus
A carrier of the recessive disorder is a heterozygote at the relevant locus.
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· an organism or cell having...
heterozygous individual
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Forms
heterozygotes
Derived forms
heterozygotictransheterozygote
Etymology
Formed from hetero- ("different") + zygote. English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders introduced the genetics term in 1902.