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Meaning of "heterozygosis" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HETEROZYGOSIS

heterozygosis  [ˌhɛtərəʊzaɪˈɡəʊsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETEROZYGOSIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heterozygosis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HETEROZYGOSIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

heterozygosis

Heterosis

Heterosis, hybrid vigor, or outbreeding enhancement, is the improved or increased function of any biological quality in a hybrid offspring. The adjective derived from heterosis is heterotic. An offspring exhibits heterosis if its traits are enhanced as a result of mixing the genetic contributions of its parents. These effects can be due to Mendelian or non-Mendelian inheritance.

Definition of heterozygosis in the English dictionary

The definition of heterozygosis in the dictionary is the fact or state of having different alleles for any one gene.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETEROZYGOSIS


apoptosis
ˌæpəpˈtəʊsɪs
atherosclerosis
ˌæθərəʊsklɪəˈrəʊsɪs
babesiosis
bəˌbiːzɪˈəʊsɪs
berylliosis
bəˌrɪlɪˈəʊsɪs
diagnosis
ˌdaɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs
fibrosis
faɪˈbrəʊsɪs
homozygosis
ˌhəʊməʊzaɪˈɡəʊsɪs
hypnosis
hɪpˈnəʊsɪs
necrosis
nɛˈkrəʊsɪs
osmosis
ɒzˈməʊsɪs
osteoporosis
ˌɒstɪəʊpɔːˈrəʊsɪs
pediculosis
pɪˌdɪkjʊˈləʊsɪs
prognosis
prɒɡˈnəʊsɪs
sarcoidosis
ˌsɑːkɔɪdˈəʊsɪs
sclerosis
sklɪəˈrəʊsɪs
stenosis
stɪˈnəʊsɪs
thrombosis
θrɒmˈbəʊsɪs
tuberculosis
tjʊˌbɜːkjʊˈləʊsɪs
Winnipegosis
ˌwɪnɪpəˈɡəʊsɪs
zygosis
zaɪˈɡəʊsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETEROZYGOSIS

heterotaxis
heterotaxy
heterothallic
heterothallism
heterothally
heterothermal
heterotic
heterotopia
heterotopic
heterotopous
heterotopy
heterotroph
heterotrophic
heterotrophy
heterotypic
heterotypical
heterousian
heterozygosity
heterozygote
heterozygous

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETEROZYGOSIS

acidosis
cirrhosis
cystic fibrosis
ecchymosis
endometriosis
exocytosis
Lake Winnipegosis
metamorphosis
mitosis
morphosis
multiple sclerosis
neurosis
pneumoconiosis
psychosis
reverse osmosis
salmonellosis
scoliosis
silicosis
steatosis
symbiosis

Synonyms and antonyms of heterozygosis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heterozygosis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HETEROZYGOSIS

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

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heterocigosis
570 millions of speakers

English

heterozygosis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

heterozygosis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

زيجوت متغايرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гетерозиготности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

heterozigose
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

heterozygosis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hétérozygotie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Heterozygosis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Heterozygotie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

異型接合
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

heterozygosis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Heterozygosis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

heterozygosis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இதரநுகமாதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विषमज्वर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

heterozigot
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eterozigosi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

heterozygotyczność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гетерозиготности
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

heterozigotie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

heterozygosis
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heterosigose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heterozygosis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heterozygosis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heterozygosis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROZYGOSIS»

The term «heterozygosis» is used very little and occupies the 173.589 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROZYGOSIS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «heterozygosis» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «heterozygosis» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETEROZYGOSIS»

Discover the use of heterozygosis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heterozygosis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 3: ...
Table 2.23 shows the differences in yield as percentages of the difference between Fx and the inbred parent lines, in relation to the percentage of heterozygosis. The entries for 75% heterozygosis consisted of matings of the type {AB)(AG) in ...
Sewall Wright, 1984
2
New Trends for Innovation in the Mediterranean Animal Production
The gels were silver stained. Statistical analysis The allelic frequencies for each microsatellite are calculated for each breed using Genetix software (Belkhir et al., 2002) which allowed to estimate observed and expected heterozygosis. For the ...
R. Bouche, A. Derkimba, F. Casabianca, 2011
3
Evolution: Selected Papers
2N As might be expected, the result does not differ appreciably from that of the preceding case. The rate of loss of heterozygosis is exactly 1/2N instead of merely approximately this figure. The simplest special case is, of course, continued self ...
Sewall Wright, William B. Provine, 1986
4
Biology of the laboratory mouse
On the other hand, the remaining organisms will carry more heterozygosis than expected. In a similar treatment Bartlett and Haldane (1) have discussed the effects of forced heterozygosis. For brother-sister mating of yellow mice, for example, ...
Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory
5
The Evolution of Adaptive Systems: The General Theory of ...
Heterozygosity and heterokaryosis also form the collective categories: Hybrid vigor Hybrid depression Positive heterozygosis/heterokaryosis Negative heterozygosis/heterokaryosis Negative heterozygosis and heterokaryosis can be  ...
James Patrick Brock, 2000
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Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 4: ...
frequency of the leading allele, and the average amount of heterozygosis per individual within local populations, 2 <7t(1 — Qt) — 2 "q- It may be seen that the species of Drosophila have considerably more polymorphism than the vertebrates, ...
Sewall Wright, 1984
7
Experimental Life Prolongation
With humans, heterozygosis makes up about 0.067, that is, on the average each man is heterozygous by more than 2000 loci. The theoretically probable number of various types of gametes constitutes 10605, which is immeasurably higher ...
Vladimir V. Frolkis, Khachik K. Muradian, 1991
8
Art and Science in Breeding: Creating Better Chickens
But Shull believed it was too simplistic to explain the superiority of the first crosses purely by the presence of heterozygosis, although clearly the return to a heterozygous state played a role in that phenomenon. He created a new word to  ...
Margaret E. Derry, 2012
9
ADVANCES IN VIRUS RESEARCH
Hershey and collaborators (67, 68) reported the discovery of two prominent features of genetic behavior in other organisms: heterozygosis and multiple allelism. By heterozygosis we mean the presence, in a single phage particle, of the ...
Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 1953
10
Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Tropical Species: Tropical ...
However, due to the allogamous condition of the cocoa species, most of clones used as parents present a high level of heterozygosis, yielding hybrids with a high variability. In an attempt to reduce that variability in the hybrid population, some ...
Shri Mohan Jain, P.M. Priyadarshan, 2008

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HETEROZYGOSIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heterozygosis is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Parent-progeny sequencing indicates higher mutation rates in …
While such regions have a longer history of heterozygosis, many of the domains homozygous in the F4 were heterozygous in the F3. Nonetheless, we observe ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
Dynamics of genetic admixture in Brazilian populations
... genetic variants in admixed individuals across domains of heterozygosis and homozygosis. They report that in Latin-American populations, ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
3
Overcoming Challenges in Sequence Analysis of FFPE Tissue Due …
The data presented at the meeting show how important genetic features such as loss-of-heterozygosis in cancer related genes, or somatic ... «Business Wire, Jul 15»
4
Case report: lupus nephritis with autoantibodies to complement …
The genetic study revealed that the patient and her mother carried a mutation in heterozygosis in exon 2 of C3 gene (c.131_146del; p. «BMC Blogs Network, Mar 15»
5
A simple approach for classifying new mutations as somatic or …
Cell populations carrying a novel sequence variant next to a known polymorphism in heterozygosis. (Click to enlarge). Using this approach, we were able to ... «BioTechniques.com, Jun 14»
6
BGI Tech develops novel 'Ultra-Deep de novo' assembly solution for …
Some of the species have not been studied because of the challenges posed by high heterozygosis. We believe that this new solution will be a ... «EurekAlert, Mar 13»

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