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- noun biology A length of
chromosome in which anaverage of 0.01crossover occurs pergeneration .
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From centi- + morgan
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When the new results came in, Wood learned that there was a man in the company’s database with whom she shared fourteen hundred centimorgans, a measure of genetic overlap that typically denotes a half sibling.
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reesetee commented on the word centimorgan
In genetics, a unit of measure of recombination frequency. One centimorgan is equal to a 1% chance that a marker at one genetic locus will be separated from a marker at a second locus due to crossing over in a single generation.
October 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word centimorgan
A measure of the coolness of British sports cars.
October 28, 2008