Merodiploid: used to describe an organism that is naturally haploidplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigHaploid: a term that describes a cell or organism that has only one copy of genetic information. Haploid cells typically arise from meiosis (or mitosis of a haploid mother cell). but is partially diploidplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDiploid: a term that describes a cell or organism that has two copies of similar genetic information, usually obtaining one copy from a male parent and the other copy from a female parent. for a portion of its genomeplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigGenome: a dataset that contains all DNA information of an organism. Most of the time, this also includes annotation and curation of that information, e.g., the names, locations, and functions of genes within the genome. As an adjective (“genomic”), this usually is used in the context of due to the presence of an episomeplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigEpisome: a piece of DNA that exists separately from chromosomes and that can replicate and segregate during cell division. While all episomes are natural in origin, they are commonly exploited by researchers for genetics research. that contains a chromosomalplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigChromosome: a structure that organizes dsDNA in a cell through interactions with various DNA binding proteins. fragment.
glossary:merodiploid
glossary/merodiploid.txt · Last modified: 2024/09/01 11:57 by mike