An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
HOMOZYGOUS
homozygous
(adjective) having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci; “these two fruit flies are homozygous for red eye color”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
homozygous (comparative more homozygous, superlative most homozygous)
Of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele
Source: Wiktionary
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FABLED
(adjective) celebrated in fable or legend; “the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox”; “legendary exploits of Jesse James”
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