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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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The autosome that became X and Y in mammals lives on as autosomes in chickens.
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.
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.
Actually, when the STR loci in question are on an autosome as most are, then a human DNA sample will have two loci copies, so two PCR products will be amplified.
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.
The six largest pairs of autosomes and autosome 20 were biarmed, and the rest were acrocentric.

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