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Definition of Chromomere
1. Noun. (genetics) Any of a group of beadlike granules of chromatin that constitutes a chromosome during cell division ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chromomere
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Chromomere
1. Granular region of condensed chromatin. Used of chromosomes at leptotene and zygotene stages of meiosis, of the condensed regions at the base of loops on lampbrush chromosomes and of condensed bands in polytene chromosomes of Diptera. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chromomere
Literary usage of Chromomere
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings in Evolution, Genetics, and Eugenics by Horatio Hackett Newman (1921)
"Moreover, each chromomere has a definite place or locus in the particular chromosome
in which it belongs and it is always found at that particular locus. ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1908)
"What happens while the two threads are in conjugation, what influences cross from
one chromomere to the other, no one knows. The best observers believe that ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1912)
"so-called unit character can not readily be regarded as something located originally
in a chromosome or chromomere. ... It may be argued, therefore, ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"... undergoes a longitudinal fission which is preceded by the division of each
chromomere. This is the first longitudinal fission of the ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1901)
"An end view of a chromosome of the first type shows simply a single chromomere
longitudinally split (Fig. 59). Linin connections between the chromosomes are ..."
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