单词 | heterozygous |
释义 | heterozygous (once / 96092 pages) adj The genetics term heterozygous refers to a pair of genes where one is dominant and one is recessive — they're different. Like all words with the prefix hetero, this has to do with things that are different — specifically genes. This term sounds fancy and confusing, but it’s fairly simple: it has to do with traits you inherited from your parents that are different. Let's say your dad’s eyes are brown, your mom’s eyes are blue, and those heterozygous chromosomes led to your having green eyes. If you inherited the same gene from both parents, it’s homozygous — the same. WORD FAMILYheterozygous: heterozygosity USAGE EXAMPLESPlant genomes, and eukaryotic genomes in general, are typically repetitive, polyploid and heterozygous, which complicates genome assembly1. Nature(Nov 10, 2015) But Mr. DeRuchie has a form of heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, or F.H., an inherited condition that causes extremely high cholesterol, and is much more troublesome. New York Times(Jul 27, 2015) To account for this we made a null hypothesis that all called heterozygous variants were actually homozygous. Nature(Feb 17, 2015) adj having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci heterozygous for eye color Ant homozygous having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci |
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