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Heterozygous   /hˌɛtərəzˈaɪgəs/   Listen
Heterozygous

adjective
1.
Having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci.





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... with a double system of factors, there are necessarily present two representatives from each set of allelomorphs, but these may or may not be alike—or in technical language the individual may be homozygous, or heterozygous, as regards the given set of alternative factors. Looking at it from another angle, there is a single visible character in the plant or animal, but it is produced by a double factor, ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson


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