HOMOZYGOTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homozygote mean? 

• HOMOZYGOTE (noun)
  The noun HOMOZYGOTE has 1 sense:

1. (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic

  Familiarity information: HOMOZYGOTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMOZYGOTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("homozygote" is a kind of...):

fertilized ovum; zygote ((genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell))

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)