Institution/s: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Universidad de Valladolid
Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
Identification number: 65
Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
Author/s: Ana María ALCONCHEL SEBASTIÁN, Beatriz BURGOS CUADRILLERO, Inés PLAZA FONTANET, Patricia ROJO DE DOMINGO
Creation / modification date: 30-01-2014
Term: autosome
Gramatical category: s
Definition: Any chromosome which is a non-sex chromosome and is common to both sexes.
Context: Each human cell, except for the gametes […], normally contains 46 chromosomes (diploid number) consisting on 22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes.
Weighting mark: nor
Sources:
Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
Definition: HABERMAN T. M., & GHOSH A. K. (Eds.) (2008). Mayo Clicic Internal Medicine. Rochester: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
Context: TUCKER BLACKBURN, S. (2007). Maternal, fetal, & neonatal physiology: clinical perspective. St. Louis: Saunders Elsevier.
Images:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Human_male_karyotpe.gif/331px-Human_male_karyotpe.gif (abgerufen im August 2013).