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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Formation of a homozygote, especially by unusual means such as mitotic recombination or gene conversion.
- noun The condition of being a homozygote.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Development from a homozygote.
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To check that standard curves were generated with truly homozygous individuals four of them were sequenced for three SNPs confirming the homozygosis.
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