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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The formation of a heterozygote.
  • noun The condition of being a heterozygote.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Development from a heterozygote.

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  • noun genetics The fusion of two genetically different gametes

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  • All eg95 sequences showed double-peaks in regions of high quality reads, which were interpreted as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and not heterozygosis, because our primers amplify separate eg95 loci.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Karen Luisa Haag et al. 2009

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