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Meaning of "homothallic" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HOMOTHALLIC

From homo- + Greek thallos green shoot.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HOMOTHALLIC

homothallic  [ˌhəʊməʊˈθælɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMOTHALLIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Homothallic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HOMOTHALLIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Homothallism

Homothallic refers to the possession, within a single organism, of the resources to reproduce sexually i. e having male and female reproductive structures on the same thallus. The opposite sexual functions are performed by different cells of a single mycelium. It can be contrasted to heterothallic. It is often used to categorize fungi. In yeast, heterothallic cells have mating types a and α. An experienced mother cell will switch mating type every cell division cycle because of the HO allele. Sexual reproduction commonly occurs in two fundamentally different ways in fungi. These are outcrossing in which two different individuals contribute nuclei to form a zygote, and self-fertilization or selfing in which both nuclei are derived from the same individual. Among the 250 known species of aspergilli, about 36% have an identified sexual state. Among those Aspergillus species for which a sexual cycle has been observed, the majority in nature are homothallic. Selfing in the homothallic fungus Aspergillus nidulans involves activation of the same mating pathways characteristic of sex in outcrossing species, i.e.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMOTHALLIC


alec
ˈælɪk
bimetallic
ˌbaɪmɪˈtælɪk
cephalic
sɪˈfælɪk
Daedalic
dɪˈdælɪk
gallic
ˈɡælɪk
heterothallic
ˌhɛtərəʊˈθælɪk
intermetallic
ˌɪntəmɪˈtælɪk
italic
ɪˈtælɪk
italics
ɪˈtælɪk
malic
ˈmælɪk
malik
ˈmælɪk
metallic
mɪˈtælɪk
naphthalic
næfˈθælɪk
nonmetallic
ˌnɒnmɪˈtælɪk
organometallic
ɔːˌɡænəʊmɪˈtælɪk
phallic
ˈfælɪk
prothallic
prəʊˈθælɪk
salic
ˈsælɪk
terephthalic
ˌtɛrɛfˈθælɪk
thallic
ˈθælɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOMOTHALLIC

homosocial
homosociality
homosporous
homospory
homostyly
homotaxial
homotaxially
homotaxic
homotaxis
homothallism
homothally
homothermal
homothermic
homothermous
homothermy
homotonic
homotonous
homotony
homotransplant
homotype

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMOTHALLIC

cerebellic
Cyrillic
glycollic
homophyllic
idyllic
intervallic
ithyphallic
medallic
mesophyllic
monometallic
multimetallic
orsellic
pyrogallic
scalpellic
semicrystallic
semimetallic
sibyllic
symmetallic
vanillic

Synonyms and antonyms of homothallic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «homothallic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMOTHALLIC

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The translations of homothallic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «homothallic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

同宗配合
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homotálico
570 millions of speakers

English

homothallic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

homothallic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

homothallic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

homothallic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homotálico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

homothallic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homothallique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Homotik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

homothallisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ホモタリック
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

homothallic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Homothal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đồng tản
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

homothallic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Homothallic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

homothallic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

homothallic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

homothallic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

homothallic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

homothallic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

homothallic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

homothallic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

homotallisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

homo-thallisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of homothallic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMOTHALLIC»

The term «homothallic» is used very little and occupies the 161.345 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMOTHALLIC» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMOTHALLIC»

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Molecular Biology: Genes to Proteins
(a) Homothallism Meiosis Mitosis Mitosis and mating type switching Ascus (b) Heterothallism Mitosis Mitosis Mating Mating Ascus FIGURE 7.20 Homothallic and heterothallic cells during mating. A strain that can switch mating types is called a ...
Burton E. Tropp, 2012
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Algal Culturing Techniques
Homothallic Homothallic Heterothallic Homothallic Homothallic Heterothallic Heterothallic Homothallic Heterothallic and homothallic Cultures as a Means of Protecting Biological Resources: Ex Situ. Species Thallism Induction of sexuality  ...
Robert Arthur Andersen, 2005
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The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook: Introduction to Chlamydomonas ...
Essentially the same mechanism can work toward evolution of anisogamy and oogamy in homothallic species. Whereas Parker's model (1971) assumed that all gametes in a population were identical except for size, and could therefore mate  ...
Elizabeth H. Harris, 2009
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Encyclopedia of Genetics
The conclusion to be drawn from these studies is that homothallism has evolved independently several times in the comparatively recent past, with several different types of homothallism being recognized. In Neurospora, most homothallic ...
Eric C.R. Reeve, 2014
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The Genetics of Algae
Ralph A. Lewin. Homothallic species are found in nature (C. eugametos synoica, C. dres- densis), and can also be produced by crossing male and female heterothallics of like valence and isolating types with a cross-over between the sex loci.
Ralph A. Lewin, 1976
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An Introduction to Mycology
Both homothallic and heterothallic species occur in this genus. Podospora anserina produces 4 binucleate ascospores with characteristic mucilaginous appendages at both ends. The fungus is heterothallic but behaves homothallic and is a ...
R. S. Mehrotra, K. R. Aneja, 1990
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Reproductive Biology of Plants
In homothallic cells, conjugation is also regulated by a pheromone, which is an ortholog of heterothallic PR-IP Inducer; however, both the homothallic cells and the resultant gametangial cells are theoretically clones and do not appear to be ...
Kishan Gopal Ramawat, Jean-Michel Mérillon, K. R. Shivanna, 2014
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Systematics and Evolution
B.7.4). Meiospore formation requires the presence of two compatable hyphae ( termed + and -) in heterothallic species whereas only a single hyphal type is required for homothallic taxa. The majority of the Mucorales are heterothallic. but in the ...
David J. McLaughlin, Karl Esser, Paul A. Lemke, 2001
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Genes & Genomes: A Changing Perspective
In homothallic haploids, the allele at MAT readily interconverts between MATa and MATa. MATa cells give rise to MATa progeny with over 80 percent efficiency at every cell division (budding) after the first; only cells that have budded at least  ...
Maxine Singer, 1991
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The Yeasts: A Taxonomic Study
Correlation of DNA relatedness with the biological species concept has been examined from genetic crosses utilizing both heterothallic and homothallic species. In one of these studies, the heterothallic species Lindnera (Pichia) amylophila ...
Cletus Kurtzman, J.W. Fell, Teun Boekhout, 2011

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMOTHALLIC»

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LEX 18 Investigates: Whiskey Fungus
A homothallic mating system appears to be present but non-functional, consistent with the absence of a reported teleomorph. Sequencing studies have shown ... «LEX18 Lexington KY News, Feb 15»

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