- Institution/s: Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 109
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Diana MOŢOC, Elena SERRANO BERTOS, Rosario HERRERO, Verónica ARNÁIZ UZQUIZA
- Creation / modification date: 01-02-2014
- Term: sex chromosome(s)
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: Chromosomes responsible for determination of the separate sexes in some plants and in nearly all animals.
- Context: There are two types of chromosomes, those concerned with sex determination which are referred to as sex chromosomes, and the remainder which are referred to as the autosomes.
- Expression: Sex chromosome abnormalities, sex chromosome constitution, sex chromosome specialization, sex chromosome degeneration, sex chromosome aneuploidy(ies)
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: MUNK, Katharina (Hrsg.) (2010). Taschenlehrbuch Biologie: Genetik. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 47.
- Definition: MUNK, Katharina (Hrsg.) (2010). Taschenlehrbuch Biologie: Genetik. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 47.
- Context: SCHAAF, Christian, ZSCHOCKE, Johannes (2013). Basiswissen Humangenetik. 2. Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 21-22.
- Images:
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