The root of bothhomozygousandheterozygousiszygo-, meaning “yoke” or “yoked,” as in “paired together.” The suffix-ousis used to form adjectives. The difference is in the beginning: the Greekhetero-means “different,” and the Greekhomo-means “same.” This is a great way to remember...
1. A word made up of elements from different languages, for example, “television” from “tele” (Greek, meaning “far”) and visio” (Latin, meaning “see”). 2. The offspring of two parents differing in one or more inherited characteristics. Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Gro...
In December 2015, the first International Summit on Human Gene Editing took place, hosted by the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine, the UK Royal Society, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NASEM). The organizing committee issued a statement about appropriate ...
Usage Note:The verbhomehas been used to mean "to return home" (what homing pigeons do) since the 1920s. The introduction of radar in World War II gave it the related meaning "to return home by following a beam or landmark" and then "to find a target via a beam or signal," as ...
Bioinformatics analysis was applied as mentioned in method section, and relevant or meaning mutations were remained (Supplementary Table 2). After bioinformatic filtering, the two probands were found to harbor homozygous variants of SPAG6, the only gene related to sperm flagellar function that met ...
Pure alexia and word-meaning deafness in a patient with multiple sclerosis To describe pure alexia and auditory comprehension problems in a young woman with multiple sclerosis (MS).A 33-year-old woman with MS who complained of dif... MK Jónsdóttir,T, Magnússon,O, Kjartansson 被引量: 0发...
Through a combination of map-based cloning, genome-wide association analysis, and Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) screening, Zhang reported the map-based cloning of the male determinant (ZmGa1P) of the Ga1 locus. The identity of ZmGa1P was verified as the homozygous transgenic plants ...
the capacity of one parent to impose its hereditary characteristics on offspring by virtue of its possessing a larger number of homozygous, dominant genes than the other parent.— prepotent,adj. radiogenetics a division of radiobiology that studies the effects of radioactiv-ity upon factors of inhe...
Remarkably, homozygous GNAS gene loss was identified in a group of SHH subtype medulloblastomas that does not harbor mutations in PTCH or SMO (104). In these particular cancers that express SHH pathway components, Gαs and its downstream target PKA act as tumor suppressors by preventing the ...
Codominance: Both of the heterozygous alleles are fully expressed in the phenotype. An example of codominance is AB blood type inheritance. The A and B alleles are expressed fully and equally in the phenotype and are said to be codominant. Heterozygous vs. Homozygous An individual that ishomozyg...