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Founded in 1946, Palomar College is a public two-year community college in the city of San Marcos, located in north San Diego County, California. Palomar offers over 300 associate degree, certificate programs and is designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an Hispanic-Serving Institution ...
The situation in which a mother's blood type is different from that of her unborn child. In the case of some combinations of types, the mother's blood system can produce antibodies to antigens on the surface of the red cells of her fetus resulting in their agglutination. This is the case when the mother is Rh- and her fetus is Rh+. As a result of this incompatibility, the fetus can develop erythroblastosis fetalis.
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The simple cell division process that occurs in somatic cells. One cell divides into two offspring cells that are identical to each other in their chromosome complement. Mitosis produces cells with diploid numbers of chromosomes--46 in the case of humans. See meiosis.
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The sense of smell. With the exception of prosimians, primates are relatively poor at olfactory sensing.
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The genetically inherited condition in which there is a marked deficiency of pigmentation in skin, hair, and eyes. An individual with these traits is an "albino. " Since the gene for albinism is recessive, it only shows up in the phenotype of homozygous recessive people. Albinos have sunlight sensitive eyes and skin. They are also more likely to develop skin and eye cancers. This is a pleiotropic trait.
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The genetic makeup of an individual. Genotype can refer to an organism's entire genetic makeup or the alleles at a particular locus. See phenotype.
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The full genetic complement of an individual (or a species). In humans, it is estimated that each individual possesses approximately 3 billion nucleotides in all of the DNA that makes up his or her genome. See Human Genome Project.
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The gas transporting protein molecule that normally makes up 95% of the volume of red cells in blood. There are usually about 270,000,000 hemoglobin molecules in each red cell.
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The fluid surrounding a fetus inside an amniotic sac. It mostly consists of fetal urine, but also contains some fetal skin cells. See cervix for an illustration.
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Referring to climatic regions in between tropical and temperate zones. Subtropical areas rarely have winter snow and are warm enough to grow oranges and avocados.
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Referring to climatic regions between subtropical and subarctic zones. Temperate areas usually have winter snow and are too cold to grow oranges and avocados. However, summer temperatures can be warm.
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