Search Results for: banding pattern
Banding pattern
Definition noun, plural: banding patterns (genetics) The characteristic pattern of light and dark transverse bands on a... Read More
Reverse banding
Definition noun (cytogenetics) A chromosome banding method that employs Giemsa staining technique that produces bands... Read More
Giemsa banding
Definition noun (cytogenetics) A chromosome staining technique that employs Giemsa stain in order to produce a... Read More
Quinacrine banding
Definition noun (cytogenetics) A chromosome banding method that treats chromosomes with quinacrine dihydrochloride to reveal... Read More
Constitutive heterochromatin banding
Definition noun (cytogenetics) A selective banding technique wherein a banding pattern is produced in the constitutive... Read More
Nucleolar organizer region banding
Definition noun (cytogenetics) A chromosome banding method that employs silver staining to preferentially stain the... Read More
Giemsa stain
Definition noun A Romanovsky type of stain named after German chemist and bacteriologist Gustav Giemsa, and is often used in... Read More
Chromosome 2
Definition noun In humans, the autosome that is considered as the second-largest, spanning more than 242 million base pairs,... Read More
Cytogenetics
Definition noun The branch of genetics that is concerned primarily in cellular components, especially chromosomes, in... Read More
Polytene chromosome
polytene chromosome (Science: cell biology) giant chromosomes produced by the successive replication of homologous pairs of... Read More
Chromosome
Chromosomes Definition Chromosomes are thread-like structures present in the nucleus of plant and animal cells. Chromosomes... Read More
