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Homozygote: From 1 Different Sources

A term used to describe a person whose cells contain 2 identical alleles controlling a specified inherited trait. The cells of a heterozygote contain2 different alleles controlling that trait.

(See also inheritance; genetic disorders.)

Health Source: BMA Medical Dictionary
Author: The British Medical Association

Heterozygote

A term used to describe a person whose cells contain 2 different alleles controlling a specified inherited trait. A homozygote has identical alleles controlling that trait. (See also inheritance; genetic disorders.)... heterozygote

Homozygous

adj. describing an individual in whom the members of a pair of genes determining a particular characteristic are identical. See allele. Compare heterozygous. —homozygote n.... homozygous

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