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Meaning of "hemizygous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HEMIZYGOUS

hemizygous  [ˌhɛmɪˈzaɪɡəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEMIZYGOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hemizygous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HEMIZYGOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Zygosity

Zygosity is the degree of similarity of the alleles for a trait in an organism. Most eukaryotes have two matching sets of chromosomes; that is, they are diploid. Diploid organisms have the same loci on each of their two sets of homologous chromosomes, except that the sequences at these loci may differ between the two chromosomes in a matching pair and that a few chromosomes may be mismatched as part of a chromosomal sex-determination system. If both alleles of a diploid organism are the same, the organism is homozygous at that locus. If they are different, the organism is heterozygous at that locus. If one allele is missing, it is hemizygous, and, if both alleles are missing, it is nullizygous. The DNA sequence of a gene often varies from one individual to another. Those variations are called alleles. While some genes have only one allele because there is low variation, others have only one allele because only that allele can function properly. Any variation from the DNA sequence of that allele will be fatal in the embryo, and the organism will never survive to be born. But most genes have two or more alleles.

Definition of hemizygous in the English dictionary

The definition of hemizygous in the dictionary is not having a homologue; not paired in a diploid cell.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEMIZYGOUS


azygos
ˈæzɪɡəs
azygous
ˈæzɪɡəs
callipygous
ˌkælɪˈpaɪɡəs
choragus
kɔːˈreɪɡəs
heterozygous
ˌhɛtərəʊˈzaɪɡəs
homozygous
ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəs
magus
ˈmeɪɡəs
monozygous
ˌmɒnəʊˈzaɪɡəs
monzygous
ˌmɒnəʊˈzaɪɡəs
Noviomagus
ˌnəʊvɪəʊˈmeɪɡəs
pemphigous
ˈpɛmfɪɡəs
pemphigus
ˈpɛmfɪɡəs
pompholygous
pɒmˈfɒlɪɡəs
steatopygous
ˌstɪəˈtɒpɪɡəs
Tagus
ˈteɪɡəs
tragus
ˈtreɪɡəs
vagus
ˈveɪɡəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEMIZYGOUS

hemipter
hemipteral
hemipteran
hemipteron
hemipterous
hemisphere
hemispheric
hemispherical
hemispheroid
hemispheroidal
hemistich
hemistichal
hemiterpene
hemitropal
hemitrope
hemitropic
hemitropism
hemitropous
hemitropy
hemline

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEMIZYGOUS

analogous
anthropophagous
antilogous
autologous
fungous
hematophagous
heterologous
homologous
humongous
humungous
lithophagous
meliphagous
multijugous
necrophagous
nonhomologous
ophiophagous
pantophagous
phytophagous
polyphagous
wrongous

Synonyms and antonyms of hemizygous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hemizygous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEMIZYGOUS

Find out the translation of hemizygous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hemizygous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hemizygous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半合子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hemizygous
570 millions of speakers

English

hemizygous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hemizygous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فرداني الزيجوت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гемизиготной
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hemizigótico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hemizygous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hémizygote
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hemizygous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hemizygot
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

半接合体の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hemizygous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hemizygous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hemizygous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hemizygous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेमिझिग्ज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hemizigöz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

emizigote
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hemizygotyczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гемізиготність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hemizigotă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημίζυγο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hemizygous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hemizygot
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hemizygous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hemizygous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEMIZYGOUS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEMIZYGOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hemizygous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEMIZYGOUS»

Discover the use of hemizygous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hemizygous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Chromosome Mapping Research Developments
Line Type* Breakpoint Def. arm** Genotype 7H-050 d centromere ? hemizygous 7H-051 t/w-b ,' 9 homozygous 7H-054 d 7HS 7HS hemizygous 7H-056 t/w-b 7HS 7HS hemizygous 7H-057 t/b-w 0 9 hemizygous 7H-058 d 7HS 7HS ...
Jennifer F. Verrity, Lilian E. Abbington, 2008
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Gene Knockout Protocols
Generation of a Breeding Nucleus The site of integration of the lacZ transgene is generally not well characterized in transgenic marker strains; therefore, it is difficult to distinguish homozygous and hemizygous individuals by genotype analysis ...
Martin J. Tymms, Ismail Kola, 2001
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The Mouse in Biomedical Research: History, Wild Mice, and ...
Hemizygous females are not fertile and hemizygous males have only a three to four week breeding window during which only about 50% will breed. Depending on the assisted reproduction techniques available to the researcher, different ...
‎2006
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Cell Nucleus Structures—Advances in Research and ...
ScholarlyBrief. calculated by comparing the number of CDKN2A homozygous deletions to the number of no deletion+hemizygous deletions, using twotailed Fisher's exact tests. FIG. 1C. Association of CDKN2A homozygous deletions with the ...
‎2013
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The Genome of Drosophila melanogaster
... always based on objective criteria; however, Ybb chromosomes are generally hemizygous viable whereas Ybb' chromosomes are generally hemizygous lethal [e.g., in In(1)sc 4Lsc 8R/Ybb'] and therefore have few if any ribosomal cistrons.
Dan L. Lindsley, Georgianna G. Zimm, 1992
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Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Safety and Pharmacokinetic ...
PURPOSE AND RATIONALE The transgenic hemizygous p53 +/– mouse has been proposed as a shorter-term alternative model to the conventional 18 to 24 month bioassay in mice. The performance of this model has been reported by Storer ...
H. Gerhard Vogel, 2006
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Identification and Characterization of the E(var)3-5 Gene in ...
embryos (alleles 01 through 06) and hemizygous Df(3R)Exel7310/E(var)3-5- embryos. Most homozygous E(var)3-5- embryos had a hatching rate around 70% and the lethality of homozygous E(var)3-5 larvae was manifested during the first or ...
Pranoti Sahasrabhojane, 2008
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Human Genetics: The Molecular Revolution
Moreover, the machine can distinguish a cell with hemizygous expression of GPA from a cell that apparently expresses a homozygous level of GPA. After analyzing blood from 15 normal donors, one group of investigators (Langlois et al., ...
Edwin H. McConkey, 1993
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Introgression from Genetically Modified Plants Into Wild ...
The identity of homozygous and hemizygous individuals was determined by progeny analysis as described previously. GFP fluorescence of the Tj canola plants within each transformation event was correlated to the zygosity of each individual ...
Hans C. M. den Nijs, Detlef Bartsch, Jeremy Sweet, 2004
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Functions and Regulation of Cytokinin Glucosyltransferases
(P++), hemizygous BC4 plants were selfed. For simplicity, the progeny obtained after selfing the hemizygous BC4 is referred to as F2. Bialaphos-resistant plants transcribe and translate ZOG1 RT-PCR (Figure 2.1a) and Western (Figure 2.1b) ...
Albert Pineda Rodo, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEMIZYGOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hemizygous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Heredity - High nucleotide diversity and limited linkage …
The absence of overlapping traces in the chromatograms indicated that the sequences were hemizygous and confirmed that these four loci ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
European Journal of Human Genetics - A novel AIFM1 mutation …
Patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy first described by Ghezzi et al. harbored a hemizygous trinucleotide deletion (c.603_605del) in ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
Acquisition of estrogen independence induces TOB1-related …
Recurrent hemizygous deletions in cancers may optimize proliferative potential. Science 2012; 337: 104–109. | Article | PubMed | ISI | CAS |. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
4
Similar but not the same: insights into the evolutionary history of …
Homozygous or hemizygous csd induces the male pathway, mediated by a truncated Fem protein, which results from an early stop codon in the ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
5
Familial chronic lymphocytic leukemia in two siblings with ATM …
Moreover, in the male patient, the test for 13q14 revealed a mosaic of cells with hemizygous and biallelic deletion, while his sister showed ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
6
Novel mutations in PAX6, OTX2 and NDP in anophthalmia …
(Thr218Hisfs*76), in a patient with syndromic bilateral anophthalmia and a hemizygous pathogenic variant in NDP, c.293 C>T, p.(Pro98Leu), in ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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TauΔK280 ("Proaggregation mutant")
... did not develop appreciable tau pathology despite expressing tTA. All phenotype data described on this page refer to observations in hemizygous mice. «Alzforum, Jun 15»
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Altered functional brain network connectivity and glutamate system …
Previously, we developed a transgenic mouse model expressing a truncated form of Disc1 (Disc1tr hemizygous (Hemi) mice) and have shown ... «Nature.com, May 15»
9
Colorectal cancer A circuitous way to target p53
Using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Liu et al. determined that many tumour types have hemizygous deletion of TP53 that ... «Nature.com, May 15»
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Genetic Mutations Identified in Azoospermia
(HealthDay News) — Hemizygous testis-expressed 11 gene (TEX11) mutations can cause meiotic arrest and azoospermia, according to a ... «Monthly Prescribing Reference, May 15»

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