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Autosome used in a sentence

Autosome in a sentence as a noun

Furthermore, the Y chromosome recombines at a much slower rate compared to the autosome, resulting in less diversity. This should be balanced by a higher mutation rate, but again, domestication depresses that.

Autosome definitions

noun

any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa