Homozygote
/ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.
- 2 (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic wordnet
Etymology
From homo- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".