(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
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(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes
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(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not appare…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) a large vector that is made from a bacteriophage and used to clone genes or gene fragments
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that speci…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experime…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered; SNPs are usually considere…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment.(genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered; SNPs are usually considere…
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any family of amphibians
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a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.the readily stainable substance of a cell nucleus consisting of DNA and RNA and various proteins; during mitotic division it condenses…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.(genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, complete, chromosomes.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
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