Chimera

chimera
an individual composed of a mixture of genetically different cells
Source: Jenkins, John B. 1990. Human Genetics, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper & Row ...
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Chimeras are formed from either four parent cells (two fertilized eggs or early embryos are fused together) or three parent cells (a fertilized egg is fused with an unfertilized egg or a fertilized egg is fused with an extra sperm).
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An experimental targeted repair process in which a desirable sequence of DNA is combined with RNA to form a chimeraplast. These molecules bind selectively to the target DNA.
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Chimera (animal)
In zoology, a chimera is an animal which has (at least) two different populations of cells, which are genetically distinct and which originated in different zygotes (fertilized eggs).
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Chimera
An organism comprised of cells from 2 or more zygotes.
Related Terms: Zygote ...
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[drugs used in cancer chemotherapy] Chernobyl[radiation] [effect of fallout] Chiasma Chimera Chitin[inhibitors as insecticides] Chlamydia Chloracne Chlorarachniophytes Chlorinated hydrocarbons, ...
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Our method consists in creating chimeras composed of core polymerase domains or entire unmodified enzymes fused with different helix-hairpin-helix (HhH) domains derived from topoisomerase V (TopoV) of Methanopyrus kandleri (1,2).
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The authors conclude that cryptomonad algae is a chimera of two endosymbiotic events. First a endosymbiotic event in which red algae was formed, then this eukaryotic red algae being taken into a protozoan creating the crytomonad algae.
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DNA chimera A DNA containing genetic information derived from two different DNA molecules. DNA cloning The production of large numbers of identical DNA molecules or cells from a single ancestral DNA molecule, nucleus or cell.
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