(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
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Polyploid
(genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes
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One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
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.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: Genetics, 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: 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.A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes
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.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: 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.Same as Radius vector.
Used in the same subject area: Genetics, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
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.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.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, twice, haploid.Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, twice, haploid.An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, twice, haploid.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, twice, haploid.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, twice, haploid.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, twice, haploid.A biological membrane that separates and protects the interior of all cells from the outside environment
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, twice, haploid.Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, twice, haploid.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, twice, haploid.One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genetics, organism, cell, twice, haploid.A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
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