Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC): A vector used to clone dna fragments (100- to 300-kb insert size: average, 150 kb) in escherichia coli cells. Based on naturally occurring f-factor plasmid found in the bacterium e. Coli.

 

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Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC): A vector used to clone dna fragments (100- to 300-kb insert size: average, 150 kb) in escherichia coli cells. Based on naturally occurring f-factor plasmid found in the bacterium e. Coli.

Human Artificial Chromosome (HAC): A vector used to hold large dna fragments.

Isochromosome: A metacentric chromosome produced during mitosis or meiosis when the centromere splits transversely instead of longitudinally: the arms of such chromosome are equal in length and genetically . . . View Full Definition

Homologous Chromosome: Chromosome containing the same linear gene sequences as another, each derived from one parent.

Chromosomes: Structures in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell that consist of DNA molecules that contain the genes.

Chromosome Region Q: A designation for the long arm of a chromosome.

Chromosome Theory Of Inheritance: Holds that chromosomes are the cellular components that physically contain genes; proposed in 1903 by Walter Sutton and Theodore Boveri.

P1-Derived Artificial Chromosome (PAC): One type of vector used to clone dna fragments (100- to 300-kb insert size: average, 150 kb) in escherichia coli cells. Based on bacteriophage (a virus) p1 genome.

Premature Chromosome Condensation (PCC): A method of studying chromosomes in the interphase stage of the cell cycle.

Y Chromosome: One of the two sex chromosomes, x and y.