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Meaning of "heterozygosity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HETEROZYGOSITY

heterozygosity  [ˌhetərəʊzaɪˈɡɒsɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETEROZYGOSITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heterozygosity 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 HETEROZYGOSITY 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 heterozygosity in the English dictionary

The definition of heterozygosity in the dictionary is the condition of being a heterozygote.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETEROZYGOSITY


animosity
ˌænɪˈmɒsɪtɪ
atrocity
əˈtrɒsɪtɪ
curiosity
ˌkjʊərɪˈɒsɪtɪ
fabulosity
ˌfæbjʊˈlɒsɪtɪ
ferocity
fəˈrɒsɪtɪ
fungosity
fʌŋˈɡɒsɪtɪ
generosity
ˌdʒɛnəˈrɒsɪtɪ
grandiosity
ˌɡrændɪˈɒsɪtɪ
homozygosity
ˌhəʊməʊzaɪˈɡɒsɪtɪ
luminosity
ˌluːmɪˈnɒsɪtɪ
monstrosity
mɒnˈstrɒsɪtɪ
pomposity
pɒmˈpɒsɪtɪ
porosity
pɔːˈrɒsɪtɪ
reciprocity
ˌrɛsɪˈprɒsɪtɪ
religiosity
rɪˌlɪdʒɪˈɒsɪtɪ
rugosity
ruːˈɡɒsɪtɪ
tuberosity
ˌtjuːbəˈrɒsɪtɪ
velocity
vɪˈlɒsɪtɪ
viscosity
vɪsˈkɒsɪtɪ
zygosity
zaɪˈɡɒsɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETEROZYGOSITY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETEROZYGOSITY

bellicosity
callosity
glutinosity
hyperviscosity
impetuosity
kinematic viscosity
microporosity
nebulosity
numerosity
schistosity
scrupulosity
serosity
sinuosity
speciosity
tediosity
tortuosity
unctuosity
university
varicosity
verbosity
virtuosity

Synonyms and antonyms of heterozygosity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heterozygosity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HETEROZYGOSITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heterocigosidad
570 millions of speakers

English

heterozygosity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

heterozygosity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تغاير الزيجوت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гетерозиготность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

heterozigosidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

heterozygosity
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hétérozygotie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Heterozygosity
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Heterozygotie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヘテロ接合
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이형 접합
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Heterozygosity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dị hợp tử
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

heterozygosity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विषमता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

heterozigotluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eterozigosi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

heterozygotyczności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гетерозиготность
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

heterozygosity
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ετεροζυγωτίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heterosigositeit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heterozygositet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heterozygositet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heterozygosity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROZYGOSITY»

The term «heterozygosity» is regularly used and occupies the 90.217 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROZYGOSITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «heterozygosity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «heterozygosity» 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 heterozygosity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETEROZYGOSITY»

Discover the use of heterozygosity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heterozygosity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications
If the population remains small and this relationship is reiterated for many generations, the effect of genetic drift on gene frequencies can become large. Genetic drift can lead to a loss of heterozygosity or a fixation of deleterious alleles .
Fred Van Dyke, 2008
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Conservation Genetics [symposium on Conservation Genetics ...
The panmictic index measures a population's system of mating as a deviation from the heterozygosity frequencies ... (8) where He is the expected heterozygosity under random mating (i.e., 2pq for an autosomal locus with two alleles) and H0 is ...
Volker Loeschcke, Jürgen Tomiuk, Subodh K. Jain, 1994
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The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians
They also reported that tropical amphibians exhibited higher levels of heterozygosity than did temperate-zone species, despite the fact that many biologists tend to view the tropics as a more equable environment than the temperate zone.
Kentwood D. Wells, 2010
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Statistical Genomics: Linkage, Mapping, and QTL Analysis
The heterozygosity is maximized when the allelic frequencies are equal. As defined by Ott (1992a and 1992b), a locus is considered a polymorphic marker if Its heterozygosity //>0.1 and a locus is considered highly polymorphic if #>0.7.
Ben Hui Liu, 1997
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Anthropological Genetics: Theory, Methods and Applications
of heterozygosity increases with mutation and gene flow, and decreases with genetic drift. The quantity defined here is the observed heterozygosity. Harpending and Ward (1982) showed that the expected level of heterozygosity in a ...
Michael H. Crawford, 2007
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Genetics of Populations
444 we will show that so that 1 - f = H>(2pq) 1 - ft+1 = a1 - 12Nb(1 - ft) (4.3a) Ht+1 = a1 - 1 2N bHt which indicates that the heterozygosity declines each generation at a rate inversely dependent on the population size. The relationship between ...
Philip W. Hedrick, 2011
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Isozymes in Plant Biology
Protein Heterozygosity and Growth Rate in Trees Because their rate of growth is recorded in annual rings, temperate trees are convenient subjects for studies of the association between genotype and growth rate. The first relationship between  ...
Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, 1990
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Introduction to Conservation Genetics
The impact of a single-pair bottleneck on heterozygosity is derived in Table 8.2. Heterozygosity is reduced from 2pq to 1.5pq, a decline of 25%. From that we can generalize to larger-sized bottlenecks, the proportion of initial heterozygosity ...
Richard Frankham, Jonathan D. Ballou, David Anthony Briscoe, 2010
9
Analysis of Human Genetic Linkage
number of equally frequent alleles (or the minimum number of alleles with any frequencies) required for a specified heterozygosity, H. For example, for a heterozygosity of 0.90, a gene must have at least 10 alleles, but its heterozygosity will be ...
Jurg Ott, 1999
10
Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis
Expressed in terms of population genetics theory, heterozygosity at neutral loci in sexually reproducing populations is determined by the evolutionary forces of mutation and drift. Mutation increases heterozygosity and random drift of ...
Isa Schön, Koen Martens, Peter J. Dijk, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HETEROZYGOSITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heterozygosity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Heredity - Genetic variance components and heritability of …
Heterozygosity can be treated as a quantitative genetic trait (Mitton et al., 1993), as is illustrated for the simplest case of one locus with two ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Parent-progeny sequencing indicates higher mutation rates in …
3a). b, c, Variation in the mutation rates as a function of heterozygosity proportion during meiosis. Detailed calculation of mutation rates of F3 right arrow F4, F2 ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
Heredity - High nucleotide diversity and limited linkage …
... amplicons directly from females and thereby (i) prevent insertion/deletion heterozygosity from confounding sequence traces and (ii) measure ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
4
Article - Nature
... suggestive for compound heterozygosity. The variant data was submitted to Leiden Open Variant Database (LOVD, www.lovd.nl/AIMP1). «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Heredity - Establishment of a coastal fish in the Azores: recent …
In S7, which has a biparental mode of inheritance, most individuals showed heterozygosity, and therefore we used the ELB algorithm (Excoffier ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Men Are More Attracted To "Average" And "Youthful" Faces In …
Science has a reason for this, too — averageness is linked to heterozygosity (a word that I definitely didn't have to Google). Essentially, high ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
7
BMC Genomics | Full text | Comparison of genomic signatures of …
Briefly, for each SNP positioned within a gene, the within isolate expected heterozygosity (Hw) was calculated by determining the total number of reads ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
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The Science Of Attraction: Men Perceive Women With Average …
FA has been viewed as an indicator for developmental stability, averageness for heterozygosity, and both femininity and youthfulness for fertility ... «Medical Daily, Jul 15»
9
Q&A: NYGC's Nathan Pearson on Reporting Clinical Genotypes …
... that look at individuals who are sick but don't have a classic recessive genotype will help turn up more cases of compound heterozygosity. «GenomeWeb, Jul 15»
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Kids of distant relatives are slightly shorter, less academic
The opposite phenomenon, heterozygosity, is the inheritance of different pieces of DNA from each parent. Overall, heterozygosity increases the ... «Ars Technica UK, Jul 15»

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