Heterozygous
Full definition of heterozygous
Adjective
heterozygous
- Of an organism which has two different alleles of a given gene.
- 2013, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, Wild Plants to the Rescue, Plant breeding is always a numbers game....The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.