autosome
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- noun
- /ˈɔːtəˌsoʊm/
- Specialized
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autosoma
- Furthermore, no statistically significant association of arsenic exposure was observed in relation to global methylation levels across autosomes on a genomic scale.
- autosome chromosome
Examples
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In flies, the sex is determined by the ratio of X chromosomes to autosomes.
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And this would be true of all the autosomes.
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So the blue ones there are an autosome and the red and the green are on the X chromosome.
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Flies, like all diploid species, have two copies of every autosome.
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OK, so the autosomes are the paired chromosomes, and then there are the sex chromosomes.
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If you also have two X chromosomes, you're a female because the ratio of autosomes to Xs is 1:1.
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Linkage to autosomes or the X chromosome was made if at least two male genotypes were concordant.
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Introns were sampled from all human autosomes to capture the genomic diversity of mutation processes.
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In humans, the 22 pairs of autosomes are identical in both males and females.
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Each parent contributes one autosome to their offspring, resulting in a pair from both sides of the family.
Synonyms
A part of a body cell that carries genes and usually comes in pairs, not the ones that decide sex
Surface Forms
Morphology
autosome = auto + some
Although the word is historically built from Greek combining forms meaning 'self' and 'body', those parts are not transparent to most English learners, so the meaning of 'autosome' is not easily recoverable from the form.
Etymology
The word autosome comes from Greek parts auto- meaning 'self' and -soma meaning 'body', and the auto- part is the same as in automatic. So autosomes are the chromosomes in most body cells, not the sex chromosomes.