Heterozygous in a sentence

Two heterozygous (that is, Bb instead of BB or bb) parents have a 75% chance of producing a brown haired/brown eyed child and a 25% chance of producing a blonde haired/blue eyed child.

All offspring from the first generation will be heterozygous for the inserted gene and must be mated together to produce a homozygous animal.

Although the shorter life expectancy for those with the homozygous condition would tend to disfavor the trait's survival, the trait is preserved in malaria-prone regions because of the benefits provided by the heterozygous form.

An affected person mating with a heterozygous individual (Aa or aA, also carrier) there is a 50-50 chance the offspring will be albino's phenotype.

An organism that has two different alleles for a gene is said be heterozygous for that gene (and is called a heterozygote).

As seen in the F 1 generation, heterozygous (wr) plants have " pink " flowers—a mix of " red " (rr) and "white" (ww) coloring.

Cells with heterozygous mutations (one good copy of gene and one mutated copy) may function normally with the unmutated copy until the good copy has been spontaneously somatically mutated.

Features of inheritance Discrete inheritance and Mendel's laws main A Punnett square depicting a cross between two pea plants heterozygous for purple (B) and white (b) blossoms.

Haemophilia C is not completely recessive, as heterozygous individuals also show increased bleeding.

Heterozygous carriers (individuals who inherit one mutant allele) show abnormal enzyme activity, but manifest no disease symptoms.

Heterozygous chickens have a color described as "erminette," speckled with black and white feathers.

If the alleles are different, they and the organism are heterozygous with respect to that gene.

In each case the offspring (F1) would be heterozygous and would therefore display the dominant state uniformly (such as round or green peas).

In incomplete dominance, the heterozygous phenotype lies somewhere between the two homozygous phenotypes.

In these species, haploids are male and diploids heterozygous at the sex locus are female, but occasionally a diploid will be homozygous at the sex locus and develop as a male, instead.

People with the heterozygous form of this gene produce two different forms of the protein, each with a different effect on cholesterol levels.

The problem arises because we can't tell which families have both parents as carriers (heterozygous) unless they have a child who exhibits the characteristic.

This is called heterozygote advantage or over-dominance, of which the best-known example is the malarial resistance observed in heterozygous humans who carry only one copy of the gene for sickle-cell anaemia.

When organisms are heterozygous at a gene, often one allele is called dominant as its qualities dominate the phenotype of the organism, while the other allele is called recessive as its qualities recede and are not observed.

When parents are homozygous for each trait (SSbb and ssBB), their children in the F 1 generation are heterozygous at both loci and only show the dominant phenotypes (SsbB).