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Definition of Congenic

1. of animal cells in breeding [adj]

Medical Definition of Congenic

1. Organisms that differ in genotype at (ideally) one specified locus. Strictly speaking these are conisogenics. Thus one homozygous strain can be spoken of as being congenic to another. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Congenic

Literary usage of Congenic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice: Proceedings of the by National Research Council Staff, Commission on Life Sciences, ebrary, Inc, International Committee (1999)
"Recombinant congenic strains are sets of inbred strains derived in a similar manner to RI sets except that one or more backcrosses to one parental ..."

2. Critical Needs for Research in Veterinary Science by Banr, National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"(1987) constructed a congenic strain in which the LEW resistance gene was ... Although resources were not available to maintain the congenic strain as a ..."

3. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"congenic Lines Many mutations are so pronounced that the effects due to ... The background problem can be avoided by the use of congenic lines that are ..."

4. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, SourceOECD (Online service) (1998)
"Over the years, the Jackson Laboratory became the source for many inbred and congenic mouse strains, specialised strains, and a large number of spontaneous ..."

5. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States (1994)
"Certain sophisticated genetic preparations are beginning to be utilized in alcohol research and should be applied to studies of neuroadaptation. congenic ..."

6. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"In mice lhat have susceptible macrophages, namely, infant C3H, infant and adult PRI, and Ihe congenic ..."

7. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, Albert Ellery Bergh, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States (1905)
"Five wee will relieve me from a drudgery to which I longer equal, and restore me to a scene of tran amidst my family and friends, more congenic age and ..."

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