Sentences with phrase «same number of chromosomes»

While both species share the same number of chromosomes and are capable of breeding, it is estimated that dogs separated from the wolves about 100000 years ago.

The two species of Phodopus hamsters (P. sungorus and P. campbelli) have the same number of chromosomes, and the chromosomes are similar in terms of size and morphology.

They don't have the same number of chromosomes as human cells.

Both are present in nearly all other organisms because they fulfil a function in a checkpoint that ensures that both daughter cells get the same number of chromosomes after cell division.

Not exact matches

They made these clones by a process called automatic parthenogenesis: The egg is formed normally (with half the species» usual number of chromosomes), then fertilized by the «polar body,» a cell that is created during oogenesis and contains the same gene copies as the egg, resulting in the shark having half the genetic variation of its mother.

During the same time period, reproductive management has involved an increasingly reduced number of stallions, up to the point that, today, almost all domesticates virtually carry the same, or highly similar, Y - chromosome haplotype (s).

In the illustration, each tissue type is followed by the number of genes whose level of activity is controlled by nearby genes on the same chromosome (cis); those whose activity is associated with genes on other chromosomes (trans); and the number of tissue samples studied.

Rather gene dosage, which depends on the number of chromosome copies, is responsible for this: «If the chromosome is multiplied, then more copies of the same gene will be transcribed.

As the authors also observed in previous works, some aphids showed different chromosome numbers also comparing cells belonging to a same individual «forgetting» that chromosome instability within individuals should be typical of malignant cells and not of healthy insects showing a high reproductive rate.

While the bulk of this project was focused on autism, this project began when Zylka and Yi noticed that a large number of Angelman syndrome - linked mutations were clustered in the same chromosome region where the phosphate group was tacked onto UBE3A.