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    An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome. The members of an autosome pair in a diploid cell have the same morphology, unlike those in...
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    typical pair of mammal allosomes. They differ from autosomes in form, size, and behavior. Whereas autosomes occur in homologous pairs whose members have the...
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    recessive are used to describe gene variants on non-sex chromosomes (autosomes) and their associated traits, while those on sex chromosomes (allosomes)...
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    a cell nucleus. Chromosomes in humans can be divided into two types: autosomes (body chromosome(s)) and allosome (sex chromosome(s)). Certain genetic...
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    parental sets. Among the 23 pairs of chromosomes, there are 22 pairs of autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes. Like other mammals, humans have an XY...
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    complete sequence for each of the 23 human chromosome pairs (22 pairs of autosomes and a pair of sex chromosomes, known as allosomes). Therefore, the finished...
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    pairs of chromosomes in humans. Chromosome 21 is both the smallest human autosome and chromosome, with 46.7 million base pairs (the building material of...
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  • Heterochromatin Chromosome Chromatid Nucleosome Nuclear organization Types Autosome/Sex chromosome (or allosome or heterosome) Macrochromosome/Microchromosome...
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    "confession", and the suspect was exonerated from the murder-rape charges. Autosome – Any chromosome other than a sex chromosome Crystallography – Scientific...
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    Chromosomal translocations which place the XIC on an autosome lead to inactivation of the autosome, and X chromosomes lacking the XIC are not inactivated...
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    present on a sex chromosome (allosome) rather than a non-sex chromosome (autosome). In humans, these are termed X-linked recessive, X-linked dominant and...
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  • contains 44 autosomes and two sex chromosomes. The next step of evolution would likely result in human DNA being reorganized into 46 autosomes and two sex...
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    reference genome is called GRCh38.p14 (July 2023). It consists of 22 autosomes plus one copy of the X chromosome and one copy of the Y chromosome. It...
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    Cannabis. Ainsworth describes sex determination in the genus as using "an X/autosome dosage type". The question of whether heteromorphic sex chromosomes are...
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    in shape and size from each other, unlike the rest of the chromosomes (autosomes), and are sometimes called allosomes. In some species, such as humans...
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    homologies with the three types of American tapirs. A number of conserved autosomes (13 between karyotypes of Baird's tapir and the South American tapir,...
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    defective gene responsible for the disorder is located on an autosome (chromosome 18 is an autosome), and only one copy of the defective gene is sufficient...
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    standard reference genome of humans consists of one copy of each of the 22 autosomes plus one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. A genome sequence is the complete...
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    SL, Wagner HP (1960). "Multiple congenital anomaly caused by an extra autosome". Lancet. 1 (7128): 790–3. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(60)90676-0. PMID 14430807...
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    chromosome number is 66 (diploid) with a fundamental number of 70. The autosomes include 31 pairs of sub-graded subacrocentrics, but one only pair of metacentrics...
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    Features Length (bp) 84,276,897 bp (CHM13) No. of genes 1,124 (CCDS) Type Autosome Centromere position Submetacentric (25.1 Mbp) Complete gene lists CCDS...
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    Sarcophaga barbata ovaries. It has only four pairs of chromosomes – three autosomes, and one pair of sex chromosomes. Males do not show meiotic recombination...
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    present-day Japanese population is much stronger on the Y chromosomes than on autosomes (Sato et al., 2014b). In contrast, the Jomon ancestry proportion of mitochondrial...
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    genetic disorder,: 561  which means the defective gene is located on an autosome, and both parents must carry one copy of the defective gene in order to...
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    composition of an Ecuadorian population using AIMs-InDels compared with autosomes, mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome data". Scientific Reports. 9 (1):...
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    ancestry; Koreans are more similar to one another in regard to their autosomes than they are similar to members of other ethnic groups. Studies of polymorphisms...
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    between chimpanzee and bonobo based on the latter is 0.421 ± 0.086% for autosomes and 0.311 ± 0.060% for the X chromosome. The reference genome predicts...
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    1 respectively, the study indicates a potential link between genes on autosomes and homosexuality. The biology of sexual orientation has been studied...
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    thought to have evolved from a pair of identical chromosomes, termed autosomes, when an ancestral animal developed an allelic variation (a so-called...
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    consisted of one metacentric, three submetacentric, and 32 acrocentric autosomes. The Y is a small metacentric chromosome, while the X is a large metacentric...
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