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chromosomes

n. (plural of chromosome English)

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But if we sequenced your deoxyribonucleic acid, we could choose the better one of each pair of traits you yourself had inherited, and then we could manufacture a haploid set of chromosomes containing only those better traits.

With the codon writer, we will make a diploid set of chromosomes combining deoxyribonucleic acid from both of you.

One of the chromosomes in my kind formed from the union of two of the chromosomes in the common ancestor we both share.

In Gliksins, two chromosomes have fused into one, meaning we only have twenty-three pairs.

Your natural haploid set of chromosomes would be vacuumed out of it, and a doctor would add in a full diploid set of chromosomes created using the codon writer.

It refers to when there are three chromosomes where there should only be a pair.

But your sperm contain only twenty-four chromosomes, with just half your deoxyribonucleic acid.

Once the appropriate genes were coded into the chromosomes of their child, there would be no point having regrets or reopening an old debate.

And, second, chromosomes only resolved themselves out of the chromatin during mitosis, which, of course, was hardly the usual state of affairs within a cell.

In a Gliksin, what had been ancestral chromosomes two and three had fused, producing a much longer chromosome.

As laboratory specimens fruit flies had certain very attractive advantages: they cost almost nothing to house and feed, could be bred by the millions in milk bottles, went from egg to productive parenthood in ten days or less, and had just four chromosomes, which kept things conveniently simple.

We have forty-six chromosomes, but some ferns have more than six hundred.

Neandertals and Cro-Magnons had different numbers of chromosomes, a complication that commonly arises when species that are close but not quite identical conjoin.

In the equine world, for example, horses have 64 chromosomes and donkeys 62.

Mate the two and you get an offspring with a reproductively useless number of chromosomes, 63.