heterozygous

Molecular evolution

... more than 50 percent of Drosophila loci were heterozygous , a claim they initially doubted. In order to ans...elective advantage of presence of those alleles in heterozygous genotypes would be cancelled out by continual generation of less fit homozygous genotypes. These re...

Locus

...omozygous (have the same allele at a locus) or heterozygous (have different alleles at a locus). In mathematics , a locus is the set of points satisfying a particular condition. It is mostly used when the set of points forms a curve of some sort (see locus (mathematics) ). In the classics , litera...

Heterozygote

...ganism is referred to as a heterozygote, or being heterozygous for a specific gene , it means that the organism...e fraction of individuals in a population that are heterozygous for that locus. The effect of heterozygosity depends on the protein product coded for by the gene i...

Allele frequency

...heorem will apply: 32% of the population will be heterozygous for the allele (i.e. carry one copy of that allele and one copy of another in each somatic cell) and 4% will be homozygous (carrying two copies of the allele). So all together 36% of diploid individuals would be expected to carry an allele that h...

Allele

...s two different alleles of the gene is said to be heterozygous . Often one allele is "dominant" and the other is ...ed" allele is dominant to the "white" allele, in a heterozygous flower (with one red and one white allele), the petals will be red. The recessive allele will only b...