karyotype
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- noun
- /ˈkɛr.i.oʊˌtaɪp/
- Specialized
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cariotipo
- Severe problems are caused by the XYY karyotype, which produces men who are tall, strong, and emotionally violent, but their number and role in ponerogenic processes are very small.
This is different than genotype and phenotype, but a female karyotype would be XX or a male karyotype which would be XY.
- This is different than genotype and phenotype, but a female karyotype would be XX or a male karyotype which would be XY.
Examples
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But when you look at cancer cells, that's not true for most cancers, in contrast to the normal karyotype, the normal chromosomal number and architecture.
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Their karyotypes were proven to be 46, XY.
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Better issue every woman you meet with some sort of formal gender identity questionnaire and submit them to karyotype testing.
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-"Buccal smear, blood for a karyotype...
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This is different than genotype and phenotype, but a female karyotype would be XX or a male karyotype which would be XY.
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Before modern sequencing technologies, mammalian karyotypes provided a lot of phylogenetic information about mammalian evolution.
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They have normal karyotypes, pass all the cell cycle checkpoints, and do not cause tumors when injected into nude mice, which lack immunity and are used to test tumor-forming potential.
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A karyotype analysis revealed that the individual had 46 chromosomes arranged in 23 pairs.
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Researchers observed that the karyotype of the fruit fly displayed a characteristic X-Y configuration.
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In the karyotype of this species, each chromosome is carefully represented to illustrate its size and shape.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Karyotype comes from the parts karyo- meaning 'kernel' or 'cell center' and -type meaning 'form' or 'type', like the everyday word type. So a karyotype is the 'form' or picture of the cell center, showing the number of chromosomes and how they look.