noun
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Meanings
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noun
an organism or cell with two identical alleles at a specified genetic locus
A homozygote inherits the same allele from each parent at that locus.
Thesaurus
Opposites
Word family
Forms
homozygotes
Etymology
From homo- ("same") + zygote. English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders introduced the term in 1902 while describing Mendelian inheritance.