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- noun Plural form of
autosome .
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But in life forms that do set aside a pair of chromosomes to specify sex - from fruit flies to mammals and some plants - the two X chromosomes inherited by females look nearly identical to the other non-sex chromosomes, so-called autosomes, Bachtrog said.
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But in life forms that do set aside a pair of chromosomes to specify sex - from fruit flies to mammals and some plants - the two X chromosomes inherited by females look nearly identical to the other non-sex chromosomes, so-called autosomes, Bachtrog said.
unknown title 2009
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Twenty-two of these pairs, called autosomes, look the same in both males and females.
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Slide 29: Chromosome Number Karyotype is an arranged photograph of all chromosomes Humans have 23 pairs Non-sex chromosomes are called autosomes
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Twenty-two pairs — numbered 1 to 22 (for a total of 44) — are called autosomes.
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One exception to the UBCS pattern found in all autosomes is chromosome 2, which shows a UBCS peak midchromosome, mapping to the fusion site of two ancestral chromosomes.
Modern humans may have inherited some Neanderthal genes - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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These unexpected biased clustered substitutions UBCS are common near the telomeres of all autosomes but not the sex chromosomes.
Modern humans may have inherited some Neanderthal genes - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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And the thousands of recombining regions in the rest of the genome the autosomes each have their own histories, with few/none of them the same as the mtDNA or Y-DNA.
Common ancestry passes another test. News at 11. - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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In each double strand helix of human DNA there are 23 pairs of chromosomes, 22 pairs of autosomes and three billion pairs of nucleotide material.
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This is supported by chromosome data, as several autosomes present in babirusas have no equivalent in other suids.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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