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autosomal recessive

Biology; Genetics

A genetic condition that appears only in individuals who have received two copies of an autosomal gene, one copy from each parent. The gene is on an autosome, a nonsex chromosome.

balanced polymorphism

Biology; Genetics

A situation where more than one allele is maintained in a population in which heterozygote is superior.

Gene mapping refers to one of two different ways of definitively locating the gene on a chromosome. The first type of gene mapping is also called genetic mapping. Genetic mapping refers to the use of ...

Electrophoresis

Health care; Cancer treatment

This is a genetics term that is used to refer to a process of detaching large molecules such as DNA fragments or even proteins from a mixture of the same molecules. In order to carry out ...