heterozygote in English

noun
1
an individual having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes, and so giving rise to varying offspring.
In a population with variation on both sex chromosomes, one does not know which sex chromosome carries a specific allele in a heterozygote of the heterogametic sex.

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1. Double heterozygote --- An individual who is heterozygous at each of two different loci. Contrast with compound heterozygote.

2. The black form may be an example of heterozygote advantage; breeding in captivity is not yet conclusive on this.

3. The relative variances of the heterozygote frequencies ordinarily were lower than those of the homozygote frequencies.

4. The heterozygote deficiency would result in allele disappear, the lower genetic diversity and the lower ability of adaptation.

5. One additional QTL for spikelet fertility was detected on chromosome 3 , but its heterozygote had an effect for reducing the trait value.

6. 10 Obligate heterozygote --- An individual who may be clinically unaffected but on the basis of pedigree analysis must carry a specific mutant allele.

7. Deviations from Hardy–Weinberg expectations in diploid populations of B. intermedius and B. squarrosus were observed owing to heterozygote excess at several loci and suggested that these self-fertilizing species may have substantial amounts of allogamy.

8. This species has been regarded as a segmental allotetraploid by cytological genome analysis, and one of its subspecies, acaule, as a fixed heterozygote for one of the two loci that codify the dimeric enzyme aspartate aminotransferase (AAT).

9. Hb Bibba alpha136(H19)Leu->Pro ; CONTACT: Heme contact: HEMATOLOGY: Hemolytic anemia in the heterozygote: ELECTROPHORESIS: Hb X moves like Hb S in IEF and electrophoresis at alkaline pH; freshly collected blood is required: CHROMATOGRAPHY: Hb X was …