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- adverb In a
homozygous manner
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Examples
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Second, harmful alleles that are recessive, rare, and because of their rarity ordinarily carried only in the heterozygous situation can become just common enough within a small population that they occur homozygously.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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As harmful recessive alleles begin to occur homozygously among inbred individuals, those alleles are expressed in ways that reduce evolutionary fitness.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Second, harmful alleles that are recessive, rare, and because of their rarity ordinarily carried only in the heterozygous situation can become just common enough within a small population that they occur homozygously.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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As harmful recessive alleles begin to occur homozygously among inbred individuals, those alleles are expressed in ways that reduce evolutionary fitness.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The function of Notch signaling during skin homeostasis was characterized using mice bearing homozygously floxed alleles for
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alexis Dumortier et al. 2010
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This increase was potentiated by apolipoprotein E (ApoE) deficiency as shown by treatment of transgenic mice homozygously lacking murine ApoE.
Food &Health Skeptic 2009
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More than 70\% of the NAB mice were found to be homozygous for the HAB-specific sequence, whereas less than 1\% carried the LAB-specific allele homozygously.
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Being recessive, those alleles remain unexpressed so long as they don’t occur homozygously.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Being recessive, those alleles remain unexpressed so long as they don’t occur homozygously.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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