Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The condition of two or more genes being located on the same chromosome whether or not there is demonstrable linkage between them.

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  • noun genetics The condition of being located on the same chromosome or region of genome.

Etymologies

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[syn– + Greek tainiā, band; see taenia.]

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Neologism meaning "on the same ribbon"; Ancient Greek σύν (sun, "along with") + ταινία (tainiā, "band").

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Examples

  • We can go further and look at synteny, or the conserved order of sequences in the genome, and see that there is an explicable pattern of change, one that is explained by common genetic and evolutionary processes, and does not fit the design hypothesis except in the sense that the design hypothesis is so uselessly vague that you can make any observation fit it.

    The circus is in town; the creationist calliope is wheezing away again - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Creationists sometimes try to argue that what we consider straightforward, well-demonstrated cytological and genetic events don't and can't occur: that you can't get chromosome rearrangements, or that variations in chromosome number and organization are obstacles to evolution, making discussions of synteny, or the rearrangement of chromosomal material in evolution, an impossibility.

    Life will find a way - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Creationists sometimes try to argue that what we consider straightforward, well-demonstrated cytological and genetic events don't and can't occur: that you can't get chromosome rearrangements, or that variations in chromosome number and organization are obstacles to evolution, making discussions of synteny, or the rearrangement of chromosomal material in evolution, an impossibility.

    The Panda's Thumb: February 2006 Archives 2006

  • By comparison, there were potential synteny, collinear order of some markers and conservation of collinear linkage groups among the maps and with the AA genome but not fully conservative.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • While some chromosomes show conserved synteny, others are rearranged in different chromosomes.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Cleusa Nagamachi 2010

  • This is consistent with previous evolutionary histories inferred from a small number of genes Figure 3: Brachypodium genome evolution and synteny between grass subfamilies.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs 2010

  • While some chromosomes show conserved synteny, others are rearranged in different chromosomes.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Cleusa Nagamachi 2010

  • They were looking for areas of so-called "conserved synteny."

    Scientific American 2010

  • Arabidopsis and synteny between soybean and Arabidopsis

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hong-Da Chen et al. 2010

  • The restricted intergenic distances indicated a "locked" arrangement of the genes that flank bidirectional promoters, further suggesting that 5'UTRs could be predicted across species on the basis of conservation of gene synteny around these promoters.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Mary Q Yang Helen Piontkivska 2009

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  • I sought the report and I’ve read it -

    Our genes are now subject to edit.

    Disrupting concinnity

    And delicate synteny

    Might serve as a reason to dread it.

    July 8, 2018