An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
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(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
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(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.See Bacterium.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent var…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes
Used in the same subject area: 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: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.
Used in the same subject area: 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: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any family of amphibians
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any genus of amphibians
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.the order of animals
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any of the arthropods
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of arthropods
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a family of bacteria
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a chromosome with the centromere near one end so that one chromosomal arm is short and one is long
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.(neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.a proceeding brought to obtain an explanation or an alteration or a reversal of a decree by the court that rendered it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.of Bud
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.(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: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.Of the same species.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or me…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact wi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.(genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from tha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, organism, characteristics, resulting, chromosomal.
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