Term: heterozygous
Origin: Anc Greek
έτερος/heteros(=different, other)
ζυγός/zygos(=yoke)
Coined:
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| William Bateson (1861 –1926) |
The term introduced in 1902 by a British geneticist W Bateson (1861 –1926) and British botanist and plant geneticist Edith Rebecca Saunders (1865—1945) for a zygote, or a diploid individual derived from it, which carries both members of a pair of alleles.
Definition:
The individual who carries two different alleles at corresponding loci on homologous chromosomes.
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