heterozygote /-zī″gōt/ [Gk, heteros, different, zygotos, yoked] , an organism whose somatic cells have two different allelomorphic genes on the same locus of each pair of chromosomes. It can produce two different types of gametes.
heterozygote /-zī″gōt/ [Gk, heteros, different, zygotos, yoked] , an organism whose somatic cells have two different allelomorphic genes on the same locus of each pair of chromosomes. It can produce two different types of gametes.