Sentences with phrase «carrying other chromosome»

Mice with one particular extra section of the human chromosome spent significantly less time hunting for the platform in its original location than did mice carrying other chromosome portions.

Not exact matches

First, boys were selected because the researchers were already looking for a factor on the X chromosome which only males carry; they assumed, in other words, that the antisocial behavior in question is a gender - specific phenomenon.

Other Chinese groups had previously reported editing human embryos that could not develop into a baby because they carried extra chromosomes, but this is the first report involving viable embryos (SN Online: 4/8/16; SN Online: 4/23/15).

This happens by epigenetic silencing of the other copy, where specific marks on the DNA carry a memory of whether a gene sitting on a copy of a chromosome came from the sperm or the egg.

The other samples were from people who carried blood cells with duplicated chromosomes from either their mother or their father.

The sperm carries one half of the new person's ultimate chromosomes, and the egg contains the other half.

Unlike many Y chromosome (male) lineages found in European and recent American breeds, only one village dog (in Alaska) carries an A1 Y chromosome, indicating that the breeds from this lineage probably didn't travel around the world with European colonization as much as some other breeds.

This is because they only carry one X chromosome while females have 2, an unaffected chromosome combats the other, meaning she is more likely to be a carrier than suffer PRA.