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balanced lethal

noun

Definition of balanced lethal

: a true-breeding heterozygous organism maintained in a stable state through the existence of different lethals on each of a pair of homologous chromosomes and resulting in loss of all homozygotes

First Known Use of balanced lethal

1917, in the meaning defined above

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