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noun Genetics.
any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
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Autosome
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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autosome
coined 1906 by U.S. cytologist T.H. Montgomery (1873-1912), from auto- + Gk. soma "body." Related: Autosomal (1930).
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autosome au·to·some (ô'tə-sōm')
n.
A chromosome other than a sex chromosome, normally occurring in pairs in somatic cells and singly in gametes.
au'to·so'mal (-sō'məl) adj.
au'to·so'mal·ly adv.
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