Examples of homozygote in a Sentence
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Most of you have seen a Punnet square, whereby heterozygous parents will produce offspring in ratios where 50% are heterozygous, and 25% one homozygote and 25% another.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
Interestingly the persistent individual in the Longar location also a homozygote.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2012
Another reason may be that in the original parental lineages there was a higher fraction of alleles which were deleterious in homozygote genotypes.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
The mother is probably a heteozygote, and the father is a homozygote.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2011
But consider a scenario where one parent is a heterozygote, and the other a homozygote for the dominant trait.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
For one thing, 35delG homozygotes sometimes only have mild hearing impairment.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2019
These people, known as CCR5Δ32 homozygotes, appear healthy and are highly resistant to HIV infection.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 1 Aug. 2019
What’s more, Lulu is clearly not a CCR5Δ32 homozygote, so the findings don’t apply to her.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 1 Aug. 2019
Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
Interestingly the persistent individual in the Longar location also a homozygote.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2012
Another reason may be that in the original parental lineages there was a higher fraction of alleles which were deleterious in homozygote genotypes.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
The mother is probably a heteozygote, and the father is a homozygote.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2011
But consider a scenario where one parent is a heterozygote, and the other a homozygote for the dominant trait.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2010
For one thing, 35delG homozygotes sometimes only have mild hearing impairment.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2019
These people, known as CCR5Δ32 homozygotes, appear healthy and are highly resistant to HIV infection.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 1 Aug. 2019
What’s more, Lulu is clearly not a CCR5Δ32 homozygote, so the findings don’t apply to her.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 1 Aug. 2019
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homozygote
noun
ho·mo·zy·gote
ˌhō-mə-ˈzī-ˌgōt 
: a homozygous individual
Medical Definition
homozygote
noun
ho·mo·zy·gote
-ˈzī-ˌgōt
: a homozygous individual
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