Synonyms for chromosome
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kroh-muh-sohm |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkroʊ məˌsoʊm |
Définition of chromosome
Origin :- 1889, from German Chromosom, coined 1888 by German anatomist Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921), from Latinized form of Greek khroma "color" (see chroma) + -some (3)). So called because the structures contain a substance that stains readily with basic dyes.
- As in DNA : noun deoxyribonucleic acid
- We interpret this to mean that sable is far from yellow in the chromosome.
- Extract from : « Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
- The locus of miniature at 36.1 is slightly beyond the middle of the chromosome.
- Extract from : « Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Non-disjunction as proof of the chromosome theory of heredity.
- Extract from : « Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Purple is an eye-color whose gen is in the second chromosome.
- Extract from : « Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
- On the morphology of the chromosome group in Brachystola magna.
- Extract from : « Studies in Spermatogenesis » by Nettie Maria Stevens
- Lindstrom of Iowa has led in research on the genetics of tomatoes, chromosome relations and mode of inheritance.
- Extract from : « The Tomato » by Paul Work
- Diploid (2n) chromosome numbers were determined from cells in late prophase and metaphase of mitosis.
- Extract from : « Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca » by William E. Duellman
- Haploid (n) chromosome numbers were determined from cells in diakinesis, metaphase I, and metaphase II of meiosis.
- Extract from : « Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca » by William E. Duellman
- In consequence a part of one chromosome comes to be now on one side and now on the other side of its mate.
- Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
- There is a considerable body of information that we have obtained that corroborates the location of the factors in the chromosome.
- Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
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