Sentence examples for half chromosomes from inspiring English sources

They then used a variety of techniques, some old and some specially invented, to link the cassettes together into larger and larger units until they had two half chromosomes which, with the aid of some yeast cells, they turned into a whole one.

The split half reliability test was adjusted by the Spearman-Brown formula [39] and was performed three times using 1) alternate chromosomes, 2) alternate half chromosomes, and 3) half genome SNP sets.

The resulting oocyte II is therefore aneuploid, i.e. it has half chromosomes represented twice, while the other half once only.

The one exception is the Drosophila half chromosome (20 Mb) where the longest tract is just 70 nt.

We observed a strong tendency of the bacterial chromosomes towards a physical balance, with the minima and maxima corresponding to the known or putative ori and ter and being about half chromosome separated in most of the bacteria studied.

Eliminated DNA appears to be heterochromatic and located primarily in the distal half of chromosomes; chromosome number is constant before and after diminution (n = 14) [ 22].

We call the (approximate) half-chromosome to the left of ter the lead-strand, and the other half the lag-strand.

However, because of a lack of common markers, the comparison of QTLs was achieved at a half-chromosome scale, which made the compilation imprecise.

In contrast, several large chromosomal regions lacked bHLH genes, such as the top half of chromosomes 02 and 08 and the central section of chromosomes 03, 04, 05, and 11.

In normal sexual reproduction, a starting cell gives half its chromosomes to a cell that gets the other half of its chromosomes from a cell of the opposite sex.

During normal reproduction, the female egg cell matures and ejects half its chromosomes through a series of cell divisions, leaving a single set of chromosomes to combine with the single set that the sperm brings along.