merozygote

mer·o·zy·gote

(mer'ō-zī'gōt),

In microbial genetics, an organism that, in addition to its own original genome (endogenote), contains a fragment (exogenote) of a genome from another organism; the relatively small size of the exogenote permits a diploid condition for only a limited region of the endogenote.

[mero- + zygōtos, yoked]

mer·o·zy·gote

(mer-ō-zī'gōt)

microbial genetics An organism that, in addition to its own original genome (endogenote), contains a fragment (exogenote) of a genome from another organism; the relatively small size of the exogenote permits a diploid condition for only a limited region of the endogenote.

[mero- + zygōtos, yoked]

merozygote

(mĕr″ō-zī′gōt) [″ + zygotos, yoked together]

A bacterial mechanism of gene transfer in which part of the genome, or chromosome complement, is transferred into an intact recipient cell.