单词 | idiogram |
释义 | idiogramn. Genetics. A diagrammatic or systematized representation of the chromosome complement of an individual, species, or other group of organisms, indicating the number of chromosomes and their lengths, arm length ratio, centromere position, banding pattern, etc.; = karyotype n. 1b. Later also: a similar diagram of the structure of a single chromosome, indicating the position of bands, particular loci, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromosome > karyotype karyology1895 idiogram1927 karyotype1929 karyogram1952 1927 Genetics 12 64 The relative size of the chromosomes, peculiar shape, and especially the presence of satellites..and constrictions..furnish criteria for distinguishing the members of a given complement, or using the terminology of S. Nawaschin, they characterize the idiogram or the specific arrangement of the diploid nuclear plates. 1934 L. W. Sharp Introd. Cytol. (ed. 3) ix. 128 The diagrammatic representation of a karyotype, as in Fig. 70, is called an idiogram. 1957 C. P. Swanson Cytol. & Cytogenetics (1958) v. 118 The shape and size of chromosomes are his guideposts, and their constancy has enabled him to determine for purposes of comparison the karyotypes or idiograms (haploid complements) of many plants and animals. 1986 D. Drayna & R. White in D. E. Koshland Biotechnol.: Renewable Frontier iv. 51 (caption) Linkage map of the human X chromosome. Genetic distances are represented in recombination units, and physical locations of selected markers are indicated on the ideogram. 2001 N. C. Comfort Tangled Field viii. 213 McClintock characterized each race as she had done maize as a whole in 1929, by drawing idiograms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1927 |
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