HOMOZYGOSITY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("homozygosity" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Antonym:

heterozygosity (the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene)

Derivation:

homozygous (having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci)

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