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Homozygote

//ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.
  2. 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".

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