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Definition: Heterozygous |
HeterozygousAdjective1. (genetics) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci; "heterozygous for eye color". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: homozygous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Heterozygous |
| Specialty definitions using "heterozygous": beta-Thalassemia ♦ Genes, Dominant ♦ Hemoglobin, Sickle, Hybrid Vigor ♦ Sickle Cell Trait ♦ Williams Syndrome. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Followup of the child identified as heterozygous for a hemoglobinopathy requires no specialized medical care. However, there are several social and genetic counseling implications that should be recognized when designing a program for notification. (references) | |
Although this risk is unavoidable, the family can be helped to deal with the problem through sympathetic and sensitive support and careful education regarding appropriate care. Anxiety can also result from the discovery that a child has a heterozygous state. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Heterozygous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.73% of the time. "Heterozygous" is used about 44 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.73% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
heterozygous | 20 |
heterozygous homozygous | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heterozygous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | heterozygotisk, heterozygot (heterozygote, sexual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | heterozygoot (heterozygote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | heterotsygoottinen, heterotsygootti (heterozygote), eriperintäinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hétérozygotique, hétérozygote (heterozygote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | heterozygot (heterozygote), mischerbig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νοθογενής, μιγάς (bastard, creole, hybrid, mestizo, mongrel, mulatto), ετεροζύγωτος, ετεροζυγώτης (heterozygote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eterozigote (heterozygote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eterozygoushay heterozigoto, heterozigótico (heterozygote). (various references) heterocigoto (heterozygote), heterocigótico. (various references) heterozygotisk, heterozygot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heterozygous" (pronounced he'teruzī"gus) |
| 5 | -z ī" g u s | homozygous. |
| 3 | -g u s | analogous, Argus, asparagus, bodegas, bogus, Degas, dingus, esophagus, fungus, homologous, humongous, Negus, sarcophagus. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-o-o-r-s-t-u-y-z" | |
-3 letters: yoghourts. | |
-4 letters: resought, roughest, yoghourt, yoghurts. | |
-5 letters: eyeshot, gesture, greyest, hertzes, heteros, hooters, outgoes, rehouse, reshoot, shegetz, sheroot, shooter, shouter, shuteye, soother, souther, theurgy, toeshoe, tougher, troughs, tuyeres, yoghurt, yogurts, zygotes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 74 65 72 6F 7A 79 67 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . - . .-. --- --.. -.--. --. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01111010 01111001 01100111 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e t e r o z y g o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0074 0065 0072 006F 007A 0079 0067 006F 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427186718481929173818785 |
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