autosome

How To Use autosome In A Sentence

• The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has two sex chromosomes and three autosomes.
• I thought also that he should have defined such terms as autosome, metastasis, meiosis, and maybe even facultative as it is used in biology. Evolution for Everyone: A Review - The Panda's Thumb
• Our next goal is to find out through linkage analysis whether or not the aberrant phenotype is caused by a mutated sex-linked or autosomal gene and, if autosomal, on which autosome the defective gene is located. OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en]
• Next we asked whether sex chromosomes and autosomes contribute equally to the patterns of inheritance.
• The evolution of the heteromorphic sex chromosomes from an indistinguishable pair of autosomes is triggered by the suppression of recombination.
• The sex chromosomes and autosomes spend different times in the germ line of the two sexes.
• Some lines were barely fertile, as might be expected if loss of the major autosomes was occurring at a high rate, resulting in the production of nonviable aneuploid embryos.
• I then present a formal model for the evolution of recombination dimorphism on autosomes and on sex chromosomes.
• We observed complete interference for both oogenesis and spermatogenesis in hermaphrodite animals and for the entire lengths of both an autosome and the X chromosome.
• Additionally, it is evident from comparing the high δ SNPs with the total number of SNPs on the autosome and X that the X is enriched for between population differences in allele frequency. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science