Look up: X Chromosome

1. X chromosome
   Larger of the two sex chromosomes, the smaller being the Y chromosome. These two chromosomes are involved in sex determination. In humans, whether a person is male or female is determined by the particular combination of the two sex chromosomes in the body cells. In females both the sex chromosomes a...
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2. X chromosome
   [n] - the sex chromosome that is present in both sexes: singly in males and doubly in females
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3. X chromosome
   Human sex chromosome; males have one, females have two
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4. X chromosome
   one of the two sex chromosomes; determines female sex characteristics
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5. X Chromosome
   The female sex chromosome, each female cell containing 2 of them
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6. X chromosome
   X chromosome: A sex chromosome found in both females and males. Normal females usually have two X chromosomes. Normal males usually have one X along with a Y chromosome. The complete chromosome complement consisting of 46 chromosomes is conventionally written as 46,XX for females and 46,XY for males...
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7. X chromosome
   A sex chromosome. In mammals paired in females, in amphibia paired in males.
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8. X chromosome
   <genetics> A sex chromosome. In mammals paired in females (XX), in amphibia paired in males. ... (11 May 1997) ...
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9. X chromosome
   noun the sex chromosome that is present in both sexes: singly in males and doubly in females; `human females normally have two X chromosomes`
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10. X chromosome
    the sex chromosome present in two copies in human female somatic cells; carried by half the male gametes and all female gametes.
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11. X chromosome
    (from the article `Anthropology and Archaeology`) An international consortium of genome centres succeeded in determining almost all of the DNA sequence of the human X chromosome and documented the ... ...the sex chromosomes, designated XX in females and XY in males. The loci of the blood group systems are on the autosomes, except for Xg...
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12. X chromosome
    One of the two sex chromosomes, X and Y.
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13. X Chromosome
    One of the two sex chromosomes The X chromosome determines female characteristics. Males have one X and one Y chromosome, while females have two X chromosomes.
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14. X chromosome
    One of the two sex chromosomes, X and Y.
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15. X chromosome
    The `X chromosome` is one of the two sex-determining chromosomes in many animal species, including mammals (the other is the Y chromosome). It is a part of the XY sex-determination system and date=July 2011--> spans more than 153 million base pairs (the building material of DNA). It represents about...
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16. X-chromosome
    the sex chromosome which is usually present in duplicate in females of species with heterogametic males Category: Medicine
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