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heteroband

heteroband noun: a band of a chromosome that has differential thickness to the surrounding ones.

Noun

heteroband (plural heterobands)

  1. A band of a chromosome that has differential thickness to the surrounding ones
    • Heteroband 71hb in IIL (Fig 7 ) and a telomeric heteroband in IIIL occurred heterozygously in a female (28 April) and male (24 October), respectively, from Germany (Site 3).2016 January 26, “Cryptic Biodiversity and the Origins of Pest Status Revealed in the Macrogenome of Simulium colombaschense (Diptera: Simuliidae), History’s Most Destructive Black Fly”, in PLOS ONE...

Forms of heteroband

pluralheterobands

Origin of heteroband

From hetero- + band.

Questions about heteroband

What does heteroband mean?
Heteroband means a band of a chromosome that has differential thickness to the surrounding ones.
What part of speech is heteroband?
Heteroband is a noun.
What is the plural of heteroband?
The plural of heteroband is heterobands.

Words near heteroband in the dictionary

  1. heteroazeotrope
  2. heteroazeotropes
  3. heteroazeotropic
  4. heterobactin
  5. heterobactins
  6. heteroband
  7. heterobands
  8. heterobaric
  9. heterobasidiomycete
  10. heterobasidiomycetous
  11. heterobasionym

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