autosome
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From auto- + -some, from Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
autosome (plural autosomes)
- (genetics) Any chromosome other than sex chromosomes.
- 1906 January 5, Thos. H. Montgomery, “The terminology of aberrant chromosomes and their behavivor in certain Hemiptera”, in Science, volume 23, number 575, page 36:
- Autosoma (or autosome), the usual or non-aberrant chromosomes, called by me previously ordinary chromosomes.
- 1908, Herbert Spencer Davis, Spermatogenesis in Acrididae and Locustidae:
- It is apparently formed by the arms of the loops becoming twisted around each other, and, as in the Acrididae, each of these arms no doubt represents a univalent autosome.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
any chromosome other than sex chromosomes
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
autosome m (plural autosomes)
Descendants[edit]
- → Romanian: autozom
Further reading[edit]
- “autosome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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