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10 letters · 28 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic
originFrom homo- + 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
- zootomy 21
- zygote 19
- zhomo 19
- zyme 18
- zooey 17
- zooty 17
- oozy 16
- oyez 16
- moze 15
- mozo 15
- zoom 15
- yez 15