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pseudochromosome en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From pseudo- + chromosome.

Meanings

  1. A pseudomolecule representing a chromosome.
    • The reconstructed chromosomal sequences are often referred to as ‘pseudo-molecules’ or ‘pseudo-chromosomes’. The prefix ‘pseudo’ implies that the assemblies may still contain uncertainties […] 2015 January 13, Haibao Tang, Xingtan Zhang, Chenyong Miao, et al., “ALLMAPS: robust scaffold ordering based on multiple maps”, in Genome Biology, volume 16:

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Deriveds

pseudochromosomal