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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 twogenetically 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.
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