- 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: EMERY, A. (2009), Elementos de genética médica. Barcelona: Ed. Elsevier, 13ª Edición. (Revisión científica a cargo del Dr. Rafael Oliva Virgili).
- Definition: DELGADO, Isabel. (2007) El descubrimiento de los cromosomas sexuales. Madrid: Távara; SOLARI, A.J. (2007). Genética humana. Fundamentos y aplicaciones en Medicina. Argentina: Panamericana; LACADENA, J. R. (1996). Citogenética. Madrid: Editorial Complutense; Real Academia Nacional de Medicina. (2012) Diccionario de términos médicos. Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana ISBN: 978-84-9835-183-5.
- Context: LÓPEZ, A. M. , MESA, M. S., ARROYO-PARDO, E. (2003).
- Images:
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