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12 letters · 28 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring
originFrom hetero- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- zygote 19
- zeroth 18
- heeze 17
- hertz 17
- zooey 17
- zooty 17
- geezer 16
- oozy 16
- oyez 16
- yez 15
- zho 15
- eyetooth 14