heterozygous

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heterozygosity het'er·o·zy·gos'i·ty (-ə-rō-zī-gŏs'ĭ-tē)

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(het′ər-ō-zī′gus)
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A term indicating that genes lying at equivalent loci on chromosome pairs are different.

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The state of having different alleles in regard to a given character.

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