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homozygous

ho·mo·zy·gous
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [hoh-muh-zahy-guh s, hom-uh-]
    • /ˌhoʊ məˈzaɪ gəs, ˌhɒm ə-/
    • /ˌhɒm.əˈzaɪ.ɡəs/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [hoh-muh-zahy-guh s, hom-uh-]
    • /ˌhoʊ məˈzaɪ gəs, ˌhɒm ə-/

Definitions of homozygous word

  • adjective homozygous having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics. 1
  • adjective homozygous of or relating to a homozygote. 1
  • noun homozygous Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele. 1
  • adjective homozygous (of an organism) having identical alleles for any one gene 0
See all 4 definitions of homozygous

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Origin of homozygous

First appearance:

before 1900
One of the 17% newest English words
1900-05; homo- + Greek -zygos; see zygo-, -ous

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Parts of speech for Homozygous

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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homozygous popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 71% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Related words

  • inbreeding

    the mating of closely related individuals, as cousins, sire-daughter, brother-sister, or self-fertilized plants, which tends to increase the number of individuals that are homozygous for a trait and therefore increases the appearance of recessive traits.

  • incomplete dominance

    the appearance in a heterozygote of a trait that is intermediate between either of the trait's homozygous phenotypes.

  • incross

    a mating between organisms that are both homozygous for the same allele.

  • prepotency

    the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.

  • zygosity

    the characterization of an individual's hereditary traits in terms of gene pairing in the zygote from which it developed. Compare homozygous, heterozygous.
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