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| het·er·o·zy·gous [ hèttərō zgəss ] |
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having genetic variants: describes a cell or organism that has two or more different versions alleles of at least one of its genes. The offspring of such an organism may thus differ with regard to the characteristics determined by the gene or genes involved, depending on which version of the gene they inherit.
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