CHROMOSOME


Meaning of CHROMOSOME in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

X chromosome

Y chromosome

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

complete

There is no diploid nucleus, with a complete complement of chromosomes , until we reach the two-cell stage.

At this stage, when the chromatids have been separated from each other, they can again be regarded as complete chromosomes .

Now that we have two complete sets of chromosomes , it is just a question of restoring order.

different

The basic reason for such sterility is that the two parents contain different numbers of chromosomes .

There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents.

Whole lengths of code, as we shall see, may occasionally be copied to completely different chromosomes .

Human ALDHs are encoded at four independant loci on four different chromosomes .

Some populations even have different numbers of chromosomes .

They diverged to different parts of an ancestor's chromosomes , and we have each inherited them on our different chromosomes.

They can have from a handful of copies to several hundred, often scattered on many different chromosomes .

human

Abnormalities of human chromosomes following therapeutic irradiation.

There are approximately 10 9 base pairs in the human chromosome set.

Further work is under way to map the human gene in detail but preliminary results support the localisation to human chromosome 11.

Lane 1 corresponds to a cosmid from human chromosome 6 and serves as a control.

Hybridisation of the cosmid library representing a 4 fold coverage of human chromosome 21 with the exon-enriched probe.

Oct-11a is located in a region of mouse chromosome 9 homologous with the long arm of human chromosome 11.

■ VERB

call

The chromatids, once separated from their twins, can now be called chromosomes .

Once the chromatids are separated they can be called chromosomes .

contain

A cell containing four sets of chromosomes is said to be tetraploid.

It contains your chromosomes and makes you what you are.

In a human being one cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes .

The basic reason for such sterility is that the two parents contain different numbers of chromosomes .

First, every biologist knows that most body cells of most animals are diploid; they contain two sets of chromosomes .

As we have seen, each cell of the human body save the ovum and spermatozoon normally contains 46 chromosomes .

Human body cells contain chromosomes , forty-six in each cell.

Our sperms or eggs each contain 23 chromosomes .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Humans have 46 chromosomes.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

However, the genes brought in by a plasmid do not usually become a permanent part of the bacterium's own chromosome .

In a human being one cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes.

In man, for instance, the genes that control gender are on the Y chromosome .

Lane 1 corresponds to a cosmid from human chromosome 6 and serves as a control.

Reduced to just the haploid maternal complement of chromosomes, the egg develops into a male.

The cytoplasmic apparatus thus effects chromosome division.

The research found that alpha rays may cause damage to cells which only becomes apparent much later when abnormal chromosomes appear.

When the membrane breaks down, licensing factors from the cytoplasm gain access to the chromosomes.

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