Chimera (genetics)
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A genetic chimerism or chimera, also chimaerism or chimaera, is a single organism composed of cells of different genotypes. Animal chimeras can be produced by the fusion of two embryos. In plants and
Two-colored rose chimera
African violets exhibiting chimerism
An example of a chimera half-sider budgerigar
The green cells in the centres of the leaves of this Pelargonium plant have formed from the epithelium cell layer, which has normal chlorophyll. That cell layer does not extend all the way to the edges of the leaves, which therefore show the chlorophyll-deficient cells of other developmental layers. This is a periclinal chimera.
Mosaic (genetics)
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Mosaicism or genetic mosaicism is a condition in which a multicellular organism possesses more than one genetic line as the result of genetic mutation. This means that various genetic lines resulted f
Chimera (genetics)
…composed of cells of different genotypes. Animal chimeras can be produced by the fusion of two (or more) embryos. In plants and some animal chimeras, mosaicism involves distinct types of tissue that originated from the same zygote, but differ due to mutation during ordinary cell division. Normally, genetic…
Tulip flower showing mosaicism