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US
/ˈkɹoʊməˌsoʊm, ˈkɹoʊməˌzoʊm/
]
[ UK /kɹˈəʊməsˌəʊm/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈəʊməsˌəʊm/ ]
NOUN
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a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order
humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes
How To Use chromosome In A Sentence
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- Linkage groups are designated by roman numerals and X for the sex chromosome.
- We also investigated a possible DMSO effect on the frequency of polyploid and endo-reduplicated cells by chromosome counting.
- Species with 120 chromosomes are classified as functional diploid species, species with 250 chromosomes as functional tetraploid species, and with 500 chromosomes as functional octaploids.
- Gross changes in chromosome morphology occur at each mitosis.
- Genes are submicroscopic segments of DNA and cannot be detected by chromosome analysis.
- A small random gene which survived all, to become successful and clever and procreate a chromosome of me in her turn, that I might live on? SEA MUSIC
- It revealed why crossing-over should be suppressed between the centromere and the nucleolus organizer in organisms in which chiasmata terminalize, from the initial loaction of a crossover to the end of the arm of the chromosome. Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge
- Chromosomes are visible only during cell division, when the DNA is supercoiled and condensed to facilitate distribution into daughter cells.
- Every time a chromosome replicates itself, its telomeres shorten in length.