Added 10 October 2026
homozygote
/ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/ noun
In Latin: none, coined in 1902 Coined: 1902, by Edith Rebecca Saunders Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about homozygote at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.
Origin
From homo- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".
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