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Definition of Chiasmata
1. chiasma [n] - See also: chiasma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiasmata
Literary usage of Chiasmata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Statistical Inference from Genetic Data on Pedigrees by Elizabeth Alison Thompson (2000)
"5.4 The chiasmata avoidance process The vector (Ci, . . . , CL-I), specifies the
avoidance and non-avoidance ... Let ,j,t be the probability of no chiasmata ..."
2. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"Then p'^(fc) is the joint probability that A is in state i and B in state j given
the occurrence of k chiasmata between them. The matrix P(k) can be also ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The first results in a close spatial relationship of homologs, and the second
results in synopsis and formation of chiasmata. Colchicine reduces chiasma ..."
4. Review of Neurology and Psychiatry (1904)
"... in the head in certain sharks and in chameleon, and other woodcuts of sections
of various chiasmata, and diagrams of the path of the pupil-light reflex. ..."
5. Statistics and Science: A Festschrift for Terry Speed by Darlene Renee Goldstein, Terry Speed (2003)
"... chromosomal pairs (the four chromatids) become aligned, at which time pairs
of nonidentical homologous chromosomes form regions of contact (chiasmata). ..."
6. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"... in black and white [also spelt chiaro-oscuro] ki-a:-ra'ska:-mo. chiasm a.
(two lines crost; decussation) ‘kai-azam. chiasma a. chiasm [plural chiasmata] ..."
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