Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Occurring or operating outside the chromosomes.
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- adj. Happening outside a chromosome
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Examples
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For the most part they grasp at aspects of their opponents 'work, such as the discovery of extrachromosomal in - heritance, or at the arguments of geneticists like
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The Z. profunda SM-A87 genome has a single 5 128 187-bp circular chromosome with no extrachromosomal elements and harbors 4 653 predicted protein-coding genes.
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Human artificial chromosomes (HAC) are small functional extrachromosomal elements, which segregate correctly during each cell division.
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And then I show how some of our initial concepts of chromosomal inheritance are wrong, with work done on extrachromosomal factors.
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All resulting transgenes were introduced into the germline and followed as extrachromosomal arrays.
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Therefore, the HigB-mediated plasmid maintenance system for the Rts1 plasmid highlights the intimate relationship between host cells and extrachromosomal
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When Falkow pursued this study as a graduate student in the early 1960s, first at the University of Michigan and next at Brown University, and then as an independent researcher at Georgetown University, he learned the biochemical and microbiological techniques necessary to deduce how bacteria transmit antibiotic resistance to one another by sharing circular extrachromosomal elements called plasmids.
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He's most well-known for his work on extrachromosomal elements called plasmids and their role in antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity in humans and animals, but he's continued throughout his career to explore the microbe's-eye view that can only be afforded by getting down to their level.
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+ (but not TA+) cells, DDR+ telomeres preferentially associate with large foci of extrachromosomal telomeric DNA and recombination proteins.
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