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chimera
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single organism composed of two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells
Research
39,537 papers- Interspecies chimeras.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2018
- Parsing the pluripotency continuum in humans and non-human primates for interspecies chimera generation.Experimental cell research · 2020
- Frontiers of Pluripotency.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2019
- Periclinal chimera technique: new plant breeding approach.Genetics and molecular research : GMR · 2017
- Rethinking the oversight conditions of human-animal chimera research.Bioethics · 2021
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- different from
- conjoined twins
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- Commons category
- Chimera (genetics)
- topic's main category
- Category:Chimerism
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Encyclopedic overview
Two-colored rose chimera
A genetic chimerism or chimera (en-US), also chimaerism or chimaera (en-UK), (/kaɪˈmɪərə, kɪ-/ ky-MEER-ə, kih-) is a single organism composed of cells of different genotypes. Animal chimeras can be produced by the fusion of two (or more) embryos. In plants and some animal chimeras, mosaicism involves distinct types of tissue that originated from the same zygote, but differ due to mutation during ordinary cell division.
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