Homozygote

homozygote
union of gametes that are alike in their genetic content; contrast with heterozygote
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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Homozygote cells are diploid or polyploid and have the same alleles at a locus (position) on homologous chromosomes.
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Homozygote in which the two alleles are identical by descent (ie they are copies of an ancestral gene). See allozygote.
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Homozygote An organism that has two identical alleles of a gene.
See also: heterozygote
Homozygous See: homozygote
Human artificial chromosome (HAC) A vector used to hold large DNA fragments.
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Homozygote refers to an individual that has two identical genes. Example: AA or aa
A hybrid is a heterozygote. Example: Aa
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Homozygote. With respect to a given genetic locus, a diploid individual carrying two identical alleles
Hydrographic. Referring to the arrangement and movement of bodies of water, such as currents and water masses ...
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homozygote
[Gk. homos, same or similar + zygotos, a pair]
A diploid organism that carries identical alleles at one or more genetic loci.
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homozygote An organism in which the pair of alleles for a trait is composed of the same genes (either dominant or recessive but not both). Adj., homozygous.
homozygous Having two identical alleles for a given trait.
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Homozygote an individual with a pair of two of the same allele
(homo = same like alike; zygo = yoke)
Homunculus a tiny preformed human which people thought merely increased in size to become a baby
(homunculus = little man dwarf) ...
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The phenotype of a homozygote for the recessive allele; the parental phenotype that is not expressed in a heterozygote.
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Homozygote. An organism whose genotype is characterized by two identical alleles of a gene. See Allele, Genotype. Host. An organism that contains another organism. Human Genome Project.
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Homozygote -- having identical alleles at one or more loci in homologous chromosome segments. Housekeeping genes -- those genes expressed in all cells because they provide functions needed for sustenance of all cell types.
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When heterozygotes are more fit than either of the homozygotes, however, selection causes genetic variation to be maintained. [heterozygote: an organism that has two different alleles at a locus.
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Compared to APOE ε3 homozygotes, the histopathological onset of tau pathology is found 1-2 decades earlier but progresses with the same speed.
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Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) deficiency: a new patient homozygote for the preponderant mutation Gly188Glu in the human LPL gene and review of reported mutations: 75 % are clustered in exons 5 and 6. Ann Genet 44(1):25-32.
Girod, A., C. E. Wobus, Z.
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are more likely to survive that either homozygote.
Children homozygous for the sickle allele die young from sickle-cell disease but ...
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Unlike in Drosophila, where eyeless is not required for viability, homozygotes for the deletion of eyeless are inviable in mammals. Furthermore, this gene is expressed in regions of the mammalian forebrain.
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complete dominance The type of inheritance in which both heterozygotes and dominant homozygotes have the same phenotype.
compound A substance formed by two or more elements combined in a fixed ratio.
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An allele that is not expressed in the heterozygous condition. Also the phenotype of the homozygote of a recessive allele.
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Mendel was also the first to hypothesize independent assortment, the distinction between dominant and recessive traits, the distinction between a heterozygote and homozygote, ...
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