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Meaning of "heterozygote" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HETEROZYGOTE

heterozygote  [ˌhɛtərəʊˈzaɪɡəʊt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETEROZYGOTE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heterozygote 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 HETEROZYGOTE 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETEROZYGOTE


boat
bəʊt
bushgoat
ˈbʊʃˌɡəʊt
coat
kəʊt
cote
kəʊt
float
fləʊt
goat
ɡəʊt
he-goat
ˈhiːˌɡəʊt
homozygote
ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt
houseboat
ˈhaʊsˌbəʊt
note
nəʊt
promote
prəˈməʊt
quote
kwəʊt
redingote
ˈrɛdɪŋˌɡəʊt
remote
rɪˈməʊt
scapegoat
ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt
she-goat
ˈʃiːˌɡəʊt
throat
θrəʊt
vote
vəʊt
wrote
rəʊt
zygote
ˈzaɪɡəʊt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETEROZYGOTE

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETEROZYGOTE

anecdote
antidote
capote
coyote
denote
devote
dote
endnote
footnote
Grote
keynote
Lanzarote
mote
of note
Post-it Note
pote
Quixote
ravigote
rote
take note

Synonyms and antonyms of heterozygote in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heterozygote» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HETEROZYGOTE

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

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heterocigotos
570 millions of speakers

English

heterozygote
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विषम युग्मज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متغايرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гетерозигот
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

heterozigoto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হেটেরোজাইগট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hétérozygote
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Heterozygote
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

heterozygoten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヘテロ接合体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이형 접합체
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Heterozygote
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dị hợp tử
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கருமுட்டைகளைக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेटरोजीगोट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

heterozigot
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eterozigote
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

heterozygota
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гетерозигот
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

heterozigot
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ετεροζυγώτες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heterosigoot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heterozygot
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heterozygote
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heterozygote

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROZYGOTE»

The term «heterozygote» is regularly used and occupies the 56.508 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROZYGOTE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETEROZYGOTE»

Discover the use of heterozygote in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heterozygote and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Genetics of Populations
Here, if or then the allele frequency will not change. dw>dq = 0, p = 0, q = 0, To explore how various fitness values can affect genetic change or stability, let us assume that the relative fitness of the heterozygote is unity. In other words, we ...
Philip W. Hedrick, 2011
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ADVANCES IN GENETICS
If the linkage is complete, the repulsion heterozygote Ab/aB will segregate only intermediate gametes, whereas from the coupling heterozygote AB/ab only extreme gametes will be formed. The average fitness of the offspring from the repulsion ...
Ernst W. Caspari, J. M. Thoday, 1963
3
Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation
Of the other two terms, "heterozygote balance" has historic precedence whereas " heterozygote imbalance" appears to more properly fit the phenomenon that we will describe graphically and mathematically. Heterozygote balance (Hb) ...
Christopher M. Triggs, John S. Buckleton, Simon J. Walsh, 2004
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The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in ...
Heterozygote superiority (Figure 7) and heterozygote inferiority (Figure 8) both have their equilibria. To see the difference between the stable equilibrium that obtains when the heterozygote is most fit and the unstable equilibrium that obtains ...
Elliott Sober, 1993
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Encyclopedia of Public Health. 2 Vol.
Cystic fibrosis testing of newborns has not shown to significantly affect the course of the disease and is therefore currently not recommended (Vogel and Motulsky 2002). Heterozygote testing in clinically healthy individuals may be indicated in ...
6
The Thalassaemia Syndromes
6 F– Thalassemia. doubly abnormal heterozygote 8 A–S Heterozygote (3 month old infant) c p m 1 0 20 15 10 5 60. There have been few studies to determine whether there is a haemolytic element. Charache et al. (1976) found that the ...
David J. Weatherall, J. B. Clegg, 2008
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Evolution
The veness of selection therefore strongly depends on gree to which the heterozygote expresses the delete- gene. Since population geneticists believe most re- c genes have some heterozygous expression, on efficiency for or against them ...
Monroe W. Strickberger, 2005
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Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology
First is a general claim about causal uniformity. Sober thinks that there can be selection for a property only if that property has a positive uniform effect on reproductive success. Second, and more specifically, in cases where the heterozygote is ...
Alex Rosenberg, Robert Arp, 2009
9
Rice Genetics III
The heterozygote for the QTL on chromosome 8, which contributed to 36.6% of the total phenotypic variation, increased days to heading. In the BC/J, three QTLs were detected on chromosomes 3, 7, and 8. The two QTLs on chromosomes 3 ...
Gurdev S. Khush, 1996
10
Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference
This chapter (a history of a very different person than Typhoid Mary) might be called a history of the heterozygote, and particularly of the scientific discourse about these individuals and their social status in the United States in the late 1960s to ...
Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek, Anand Pandian, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HETEROZYGOTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heterozygote is used in the context of the following news items.
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Parent-progeny sequencing indicates higher mutation rates in …
Similarly, the indel mutation rate in intergenic regions in heterozygote F2 progeny is ~2.8-fold higher than that in homozygotes (Table 1; two-tailed BM test, ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
Heredity - High nucleotide diversity and limited linkage …
The effect of the beneficial allele on the heterozygote was set to be half of that of the homozygote, that is, -SAA 2Nes -SAa 1Nes. Top of page ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
Heredity - Genetic variance components and heritability of …
... (a and −a) are expressed relative to their midpoint, and the deviation of the heterozygote from this midpoint as d, the dominance coefficient. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
4
Disease modeling and lentiviral gene transfer in patient-specific …
(a) Mutation analysis shows compound heterozygote mutation .... Gene analysis showed compound heterozygote mutation, c.796C>T and ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
5
The Drink of Patriots: As American as Apple Cider
It's what's called an “extreme heterozygote,” meaning the fruit it produces is highly varied from one plant to another. Even seeds planted from ... «War on the Rocks, Jul 15»
6
Genetic variant reduces coronary events, increases diabetes risk in …
The variant was identified in 26% of the cohort; of those, 24.2% were heterozygote carriers and 1.8% were homozygote or compound ... «Healio, Jun 15»
7
Non-syndromic hearing loss caused by the dominant cis mutation …
... were also evaluated and found to cause hearing loss in certain conditions, including VG homozygotes or a compound heterozygote with VG. «Nature.com, Jun 15»
8
Has Tuberculosis Contributed to the Global Rates of Cystic Fibrosis?
... tuberculosis resistance in the CF heterozygote can explain the modern gradient in CF incidence between Europe and the rest of the world.”. «Cystic Fibrosis News Today, Jun 15»
9
The use of whole-exome sequencing to disentangle complex …
For the bronchiectasis phenotype we were unable to identify a causal single mutation or compound heterozygote, reflecting the heterogeneous ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
10
NHGRI Researchers Examine Phenotypic Effects of Putative Loss-of …
After filtering for pLOF variants in genes where they'd likely cause a phenotype in a heterozygote, the researchers came up with a list of 82 ... «GenomeWeb, Jun 15»

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