Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The side-by-side association of homologous chromosomes during the first prophase of meiosis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mitapsis . - noun The name originally applied by J. E. S. Moore, in 1892, to the contracted state of the nuclear skein occurring previous to the reduction of the chromosomes and to the formation of tetraspores, sperms, or eggs.
- noun The anatomical connection between the processes or neuraxons of two or more nervecells.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
association ofhomologous maternal andpaternal chromosomes during theinitial part ofmeiosis . - noun Alternative form of
synapse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Anybody with more than two neurons and half a synapsis can understand that in case CRU had any Spanish data bought to the Spanish AEMET, CRU simply couldn't release that data to third parties.
Cthulhu Explains it All EliRabett 2010
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When the back cover has a great overview or synapsis, one that sounds juicy or scarey or eclectic, I am sucked in like the book is a black hole lol ps and good art work helps, but other writer recommendations I always take with a grain of salt
Book ponderings and a Kiss My Asphalt t-shirt giveaway Angie Fox 2009
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And that synapsis is a listing of when DOJ lawyers do not defend a law.
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Bananas are sterile and seedless because they are odd polyploids in which one set of chromosomes A or B has no homologous set to pair up with during synapsis of meiosis.
Banana twilight 2008
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February 25, 2008 at 9:32 am wow, wut a gud synapsis. dis will sabe me lawts ob hed skritchin wehn i gets a round tuit.
Shhhh! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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My litning kwik brayn synapsis, let me nawt sho U dem!
Damn u imaginary kwiksandz! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Bananas are sterile and seedless because they are odd polyploids in which one set of chromosomes A or B has no homologous set to pair up with during synapsis of meiosis.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Right now, in this very moment a complex circuit board of 3 million neurons and synapsis, fire away.
wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007
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A primary factor in speciation has been chromosome restructuring as synapsis between structural chromosome heterozygotes invariably leads to some sterility because crossing over in the nonhomologous regions leads to the production of unbalanced, non functional gametes.
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My View of the World has audio of this morning's Brookfield press conference as well as a synapsis of Sunday Insight.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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