Multichimera
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Multichimera is a noun meaning (genetics) A chimera containing genetically distinct cells originating from three or more zygotes.
Meaning
(genetics) A chimera containing genetically distinct cells originating from three or more zygotes.
More Meanings
- (physics) A complex spatiotemporal pattern consisting of multiple coexisting domains of synchronized dynamics within a domain of incoherent dynamics, produced by a system of nonlocally coupled oscillators.
Example Sentences
Around the time of the events that led to your birth, there was no longer anything new even about multichimeras.
The multichimera state is shown to have a power law distribution of synchronized cluster sizes, whose exponent is found to be independent of the system parameters.
The formation of Botryllus multichimeras sets the 'group level' (the assemblage of several genotypes into one unified entity) as the key level at which natural selection acts.
However, it was suggested that potentially losing genotypes (defined as such in bi-chimeras scenario) might survive in multichimera entities as stem cells in refugia and successfully propagate to succeeding generations.
Word Forms
- multichimeras
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include chimera, allochimera, chimerism, microchimera, xenochimera, chimaerism.
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