Difference between Heterozygous and Hemizygous

What is the difference between Heterozygous and Hemizygous?

Heterozygous as an adjective is of an organism which has two different alleles of a given gene while Hemizygous as an adjective is having some single copies of genes in an otherwise diploid cell or organism

We hope you now know whether to use Heterozygous or Hemizygous in your sentence.