Somatic cell

somatic cell genetics
using somatic cells to study the genetics of an organism
Source: Jenkins, John B. 1990. Human Genetics, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper & Row ...
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Dr. Paul Meltzer, of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Laboratory of Cancer Genetics, defines somatic cells.
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Somatic cell nuclear transfer can create clones for both reproductive and therapeutic purposes. The diagram depicts the removal of the donor nucleus for schematic purposes; in practice the whole donor cell is transferred.
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Somatic cells: Any cell in the body except sex cells.
Template: a single DNA strand that serves as pattern for building a new second strand.
Thymine (T): A base; one of the molecular components of DNA and RNA. Always bonds with adenine (T-A).
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somatic cell
[Gk. soma, body]
Any cell in a multicellular organism except a sperm or egg cell.
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somatic cell A cell that is not or will not become a gamete; the cells of the body.
somatic senses All senses except vision, hearing, taste, and smell; include pain, temperature, and pressure.
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Somatic cell hybridization
In somatic cell hybridization, human cells and rodent tumor cells are fused (hybridized); over time, after the chromosomes mix, human chromosomes are preferentially lost from the hybrid cell until only one or a few remain.
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somatic cell Ordinary body cell; pertaining to or characteristic of a body cell. Any cell other than a germ cell or germ-cell precursor.
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Somatic cell. Any nongerm cell that composes the body of an organism and which possesses a set of multiploid chromosomes (diploid in most organisms). (See Gamete, Somatic cell gene therapy.) ...
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somatic cell
any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells.
somite
A serial segment of the animal body.
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Somatic cells: Any cell in the body except gametes and their precursors.
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In somatic cells, removal of the 5' most intron is prevented, so that a truncated protein, missing sequence encoded by the last exon, is produced P element pre-mRNA. The resulting truncated protein acts as a repressor of transposition.
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Most somatic cells of the body cease to express telomerase. (Germ cells, some stem cells, and cancer cells continue to express the enzyme.) ...
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The diploid somatic cells of an individual will contain one copy of the chromosome set from the sperm and one copy of the chromosome set from the egg—that is, ...
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archeocyte - somatic cell of sponge that can differentiate into all three other cell types of the organism.
aster - radiating formation of microtubules at each pole of a spindle apparatus, formed during mitosis; comes from word meaning "star." ...
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See Somatic cell. Germ cell (germ line) gene therapy. The repair or re- placement of a defective gene within the gamete-forming tissues, which produces a heritable change in an organism's genetic constitution. GMO. Genetically modified organism.
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Barr body -- the condensed single X-chromosome seen in the nuclei of somatic cells of female mammals. base pair a pair of hydrogen-bonded nitrogenous bases (one purine and one pyrimidine) that join the component strands of the DNA double helix.
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All other cells are somatic cells. globular proteins Soluble proteins with a globular (somewhat rounded) shape. Their axial to diameter ratio is less that 10:1, and usually closer to 1:1.
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Later a mutation occurs in the second copy of the gene in a somatic cell. In that cell both copies of the gene are mutated and the cell develops uncontrolled growth.
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Some organisms are diploid - that is, they have paired homologous chromosomes in their somatic cells, and thus contain two copies of each gene.
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The number of chromosome arms in a somatic cell of a particular species.
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: If a mutation selectively affects the cells destined to become gonadal cells during early embryogenesis, the affected individual will be phenotypically normal, the somatic cells will be free of the mutation but all or some gonadal/germ cells will ...
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Telomerase is usually found in cells involved in the production of gametes. It is not normally found in somatic cells.
Cyclin-Dependent Kinases
Some cells stop dividing in G1; others stop in G2.
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[Gr. meiosis - reduction]. Two consecutive nuclear divisions whereby the resultant daughter nuclei contain half the chromosome complement of other somatic cells; occurs at time of gametogenesis. Synonym: reduction division.
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