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What is an autosome?

What is an autosome? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (genetics) Any chromosome other than sex chromosomes.
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It is apparently formed by the arms of the loops becoming twisted around each other, and, as in the Acrididae, each of these arms no doubt represents a univalent autosome.
The members of an autosome pair in a diploid cell have the same morphology unlike those in allosome pairs which may have different structure.
The six largest pairs of autosomes and autosome 20 were biarmed, and the rest were acrocentric.
The degeneration cycle may be reset by formation of neo sex chromosomes by fusion between a sex chromosome and an autosome.
Bos taurus autosome 8 contains several SNPs that are significant for RFI in the 50K or 10K experiments and one SNP was significant in both.
We observed complete interference for both oogenesis and spermatogenesis in hermaphrodite animals and for the entire lengths of both an autosome and the X chromosome.

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