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Definition of Heterozygous
1. Adjective. Having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci. "Heterozygous for eye color"
Derivative terms: Heterozygosity
Antonyms: Homozygous
Definition of Heterozygous
1. Adjective. of an organism which has two different alleles of a given gene ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heterozygous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Heterozygous
1. Containing two different alleles of the same gene. Compare: homozygous. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterozygous
Literary usage of Heterozygous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genetic Studies on a Cavy Species Cross by John Adolph Detlefsen (1914)
"Such matings have been described in table 45, and the heterozygous colored young
... Table 47 records the matings of two females, heterozygous in color, ..."
2. Genetics and Eugenics: A Text-book for Students of Biology and a Reference by William Ernest Castle (1916)
"Pink in this case may be called a heterozygous character; it is for that reason
unfixable. A similar but even better-known case among animals has been ..."
3. Inbreeding and Outbreeding: Their Genetic and Sociological Significance by Edward Murray East, Donald Forsha Jones (1919)
"Heterozygotes are eliminated and homozygotes 100'/ Percent.of heterozygous
Individuals in Each Selfed Generation when the Number of ..."
4. Heredity and Sex by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1913)
"the female that produces two kinds of eggs; she is heterozygous for a sex factor
while the male produces only one kind of spermatozoon. FIo. 41. ..."
5. Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery by Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire (1911)
"The third is another yellow round, heterozygous for both colour and shape; ...
WW, is another yellow wrinkled, this time heterozygous for colour. ..."
6. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"To more fully evaluate the apparent potential of transgenic mouse models, studies
must be conducted to develop a database of responses of the heterozygous ..."
7. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The heterozygous grays will again yield the 3 types in the proportion of 1:2:1.
... If a purebred albino is crossed with a heterozygous gray the second ..."
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