monochromosome

M3O1N1O1C3H4R1O1M3O1S1O1M3E1

noun

A single chromosome

Scrabble 25

Meanings

nounmonochromosome (plural monochromosomes)

plural monochromosomes

  1. A single chromosome
    1 more example

    Chromosome complementation studies, where all or part of a chromosome is introduced into cell lines with LOH of that chromosome via microcell-mediated monochromosome transfer, have frequently been able to show reduction in tumorigenicity of the cell line thus complemented, but have only rarely been able to implicate a single gene responsible.

    2015 August 1, Georgina L. Ryland et al., “Loss of heterozygosity: what is it good for?”, in BMC Medical Genomics, volume 8, →DOI

Origin

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