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Meaning of "homozygosis" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOMOZYGOSIS

homozygosis  [ˌhəʊməʊzaɪˈɡəʊsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMOZYGOSIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Homozygosis 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 HOMOZYGOSIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of homozygosis in the English dictionary

The definition of homozygosis in the dictionary is the characteristic of having identical alleles for any one gene.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMOZYGOSIS


apoptosis
ˌæpəpˈtəʊsɪs
atherosclerosis
ˌæθərəʊsklɪəˈrəʊsɪs
babesiosis
bəˌbiːzɪˈəʊsɪs
berylliosis
bəˌrɪlɪˈəʊsɪs
diagnosis
ˌdaɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs
fibrosis
faɪˈbrəʊsɪs
heterozygosis
ˌhɛtərəʊzaɪˈɡəʊsɪs
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 HOMOZYGOSIS

homotaxic
homotaxis
homothallic
homothallism
homothally
homothermal
homothermic
homothermous
homothermy
homotonic
homotonous
homotony
homotransplant
homotype
Homousian
homozygosity
homozygote
homozygotic
homozygous
homozygously

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMOZYGOSIS

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 homozygosis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «homozygosis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMOZYGOSIS

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

Translator English - Chinese

纯合
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homocigosis
570 millions of speakers

English

homozygosis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

homozygosis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تشكل زيجوت متماثلة الألائل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гомозиготность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homozigose
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

homozygosis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homozygotie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Homozygosis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Homozygotie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

同型接合
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

homozygosis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Homozygosis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

homozygosis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சமநுகமாதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

होमोझीगॉसिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

homozygosis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

omozigosi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

homozygosis
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гомозиготность
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

homozigotie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομοζύγωσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Homosigositeit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

homozygoter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

homozygosis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of homozygosis

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMOZYGOSIS»

The term «homozygosis» is used very little and occupies the 182.274 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMOZYGOSIS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMOZYGOSIS»

Discover the use of homozygosis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to homozygosis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Genetics
On the average there is a gradual decrease in yield in self-fertilized lines of maize which for a considerable number of years or until homozygosis is reached is roughly proportional to the number of years which the strain has been self ...
George Harrison Shull, Donald Forsha Jones, Leslie Clarence Dunn, 1922
2
Mating-type Zygosity and Virulence in a Human Pathogenic ...
Wei Wu. Development of the contig map for chromosome 5: 55 MTL homozygosis in strain P37037 56 MTL homozygosis in strain P37039 58 MTL homozygosis in strain P75063 58 MTL homozygosis in strain P34048 59 Chromosome 5 ...
Wei Wu, 2007
3
Evolution: Selected Papers
On this view it may readily be shown that the decrease in vigor on starting inbreeding in a previously root stock should be directly proportional to the increase in the percentage of homozygosis. Numerous experiments with plants and lower ...
Sewall Wright, William B. Provine, 1986
4
Ionic Transport in Hypertension New Perspectives
It should be noted that when tested for 15 other loci, homozygosis was present in all.91 Studies to complete the cDNA sequence of the a adducin subunit and to investigate tissue and strain specific expression of adducin genes are still in ...
Antonio Coca, Ricardo Garay, 1993
5
Advanced Genetic Analysis: Finding Meaning in a Genome
However, hromatid exchange were to occur with the same frequency as does inter-homolog exchange, then the maximum frequency of homozygosis would be 16.6% (figure B73). As can be seen from the figure, the frequency of homozygosis ...
R. Scott Hawley, Michelle Walker, 2009
6
Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology
Fish had attended a seminar given by East and read a 1912 paper by East and Hayes, both of which led Fish to the intuitively obvious conclusion that inbreeding led toward homozygosis in a population. But East had not formally gone beyond  ...
William B. Provine, 1989
7
The Biology of Fungi Impacting Human Health
One outcome is the production of mating type locus homozygosis. Conceivably then, achieving homozygosis in mating type strains (a/a or α/α) found in nature may arise from a mating event—Fraser & Heitman 2006. However, this is not the  ...
WA Shipton, 2012
8
ADVANCES IN GENETICS
Crossing over between b and c will lead to homozygosis of c only, crossing over between a and b will lead to homozygosis of b and c and crossing-over between the centromere and a will lead to homozygosis of a, b, and c. Thus it is possible ...
M. Demerec, 1958
9
Polyploid and Hybrid Genomics
Inbreeding Depression in Matched Diploid and Tetraploid Plants ls Quite Similar Despite Very Different Rates of Homozygosis In diploid plants, there are two copies of each gene in hybrids, and these two copies can differ. Upon self- crossing ...
Z. Jeffrey Chen, James A. Birchler, 2013
10
Plant Breeding: Analysis and Exploitation of Variation
Thus under condition of heterozygous advantage selection in favour of heterozygote can prevent full homozygosis being attained. Under the condition s > 1/2 i.e. when the homozygotes are at least half as fit as the heterozygotes, selfing will ...
Darbeshwar Roy, 2000

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMOZYGOSIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term homozygosis is used in the context of the following news items.
1
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»
2
On the consequences of ignoring purging on genetic …
This expression assumes that the homozygosis for (partially) recessive deleterious alleles increases with inbreeding at the same rate as that for ... «Nature.com, Apr 15»
3
Genetics prefers 'arranged' marriages
The genetic reason for such undesirable effects, said Sinha, is nothing but homozygosis of detrimental gene alleles in the offspring of the ... «Times of India, Mar 15»
4
Fungal biology: Multiple mating strategies
Some genetic variation will be introduced by recombination during mitosis (the replication of diploid cells) and by homozygosis (a process in ... «Nature.com, Jan 13»

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