chondriome
English
Etymology
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Noun
chondriome (plural chondriomes)
- (biology) The set of intracellular organelles contained in the cytosol.
- 1914 April - May, F. Cavers, “Chondriosomes (Mitochondria) and their Significance”, in The New Phytologist, volume 13, number 4/5:
- In one of his 1913 papers Guillermond discusses the function of the chondriome (collective term for the chondriosomes of the cell or the plant) in Fungi.
- 1986, S. H Mantell, The Chondriome: chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes:
- Several characteristics of the chondriome require investigation. What is the biological significance of base sequence homology between parts of mitochondrial DNA (mt-DNA) and nuclear DNA in eukaryotes?
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Related terms
- chondriosome
French
Noun
chondriome m (plural chondriomes)
- (biology) chondriome
Further reading
- “chondriome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.