Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. biology A length of chromosome in which an average of 0.01 crossover occurs per generation.
Etymologies
- From centi- + morgan (Wiktionary)
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘centimorgan’.
-
Names of People/Animals Real/Fiction ...
dickensian, wagnerian, daliesque, ghandian, kafkaesque, faulknerian, jungian, freudian, elizabethan, charlemagne, shakespearian, chekovian and 467 more...
-
sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
-
The Measure of Man
Unusual, arcane, or obscure units of measure
cable, cabot, bushel, cade, caliper, callipic cycle, metonic cycle, cunit, air watt, ale gallon, allergy unit, amber and 228 more...
-
person or measurement
By 'or' I mean 'and'
angstrom, becquerel, biot, centimorgan, coulomb, curie, dalton, debye, decibel, celsius, fahrenheit, eotvos and 28 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for centimorgan.
bilby A measure of the coolness of British sports cars. Oct 28, 2008
reesetee 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. Oct 24, 2008