HETEROZYGOTE

Specialty Definition: HETEROZYGOTE

Domain	Definition
Health	An individual having different alleles at one or more loci in homologous chromosome segments. (references)
Medicine	Having unlike alleles at one or more corresponding loci on homologous chromosomes. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Heterozygote

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Heterozygote cells are diploid or polyploid and have different alleles at a locus (position) on homologous chromosomes. Within some heterozygotes, only one of the alleles is dominant (only the trait of the dominant allele shows), although this is not universally true.

See also: homozygote.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Heterozygote."

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Usage Frequency: HETEROZYGOTE

"HETEROZYGOTE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HETEROZYGOTE" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: HETEROZYGOTE

Expression using "HETEROZYGOTE": Heterozygote Detection. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HETEROZYGOTE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
heterozygote	19
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Modern Translation: HETEROZYGOTE

Language		Translations for "HETEROZYGOTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		heterozygot (heterozygous, sexual). (various references)

Dutch		heterozygoot (heterozygous). (various references)

Finnish		heterotsygootti (heterozygous). (various references)

French		hétérozygote (heterozygous). (various references)

German		heterozygot (heterozygous), Bastard (bastard, cross-breed, half caste, hybrid, mongrel). (various references)

Greek		ετερόζυγος, ετεροζυγώτης (heterozygous), ετεροζυγωτό. (various references)

Italian		eterozigotico, eterozigote (heterozygous). (various references)

Pig Latin		eterozygotehay

Portuguese		heterozigótico (heterozygous). (various references)

Spanish		heterocigoto (heterozygous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: HETEROZYGOTE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "HETEROZYGOTE": heterozygotes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HETEROZYGOTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-h-o-o-r-t-t-y-z"
	-4 letters: eyetooth, together.
	-5 letters: teether, thereto.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-h-o-o-r-t-t-y-z"
	+1 letter: heterozygotes.
	+4 letters: heterozygosities.
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