Definition of Monosome

1. an unpaired chromosome [n -S]

Medical Definition of Monosome

1. 1. A single ribosome attached to a strand of mRNA. 2. A ribosome that has dissociated from a polysome. 3. Chromosome in an aneuploid set that does not have a homologue. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monosome

monosemous
monosemy
monosensitized
monosepalous
monoses
monosies
monosilane
monosilicide
monosilicides
monosilver
monosis
monosized
monoski
monosodium
monosodium glutamate
monosome (current term)
monosomes
monosomia
monosomic
monosomics
monosomies
monosomous
monospace
monospaced
monospaced font
monospaces
monospacing
monospasm

Literary usage of Monosome

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

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"... and "monosome" for one which passes undivided to one of the daughter nuclei. The latter term would be most suitably applicable to the bodies ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1907)
"... of the usual type — variously known as the " accessory chromosome " (McClung), " heterotropic chromosome " (Wilson), or " monosome " (Montgomery). i. ..."

3. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1911)
"... in the line of imitation rubbers. figuration of many of the monoSome, however, claim to have effected saccharide sugars may be determined. the synthesis ..."

4. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"Various authors have described a "monosome" in the germ-cells of the female cat but author is convinced that what they have regarded as a single body is the ..."

5. Outlines of Evolutionary Biology by Arthur Dendy (1912)
"... chromosome or " monosome," while the female possesses an even number (one more than the male owing to the presence of two "accessory" chromosomes). ..."

6. A Textbook of General Embryology by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"... monosome, etc. Such an unequal distribution of the chromosomes was first observed by Henking in 1890, and in 1902 McClung described similar processes in ..."

7. Molecular Markers in Plant Genome Analysis: Sponsored CRIS/ICAR Projects and by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"Analyze reciprocal circular matings that will define parameters of newly invented "monosome Walk" and "TTT-Shuffle" procedures. Collect and analyze meiotic ..."

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