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Definition of Sex chromatin
1. Noun. Chromatin found only in female cells. "The presence or absence of sex chromatin in cells obtained by amniocentesis makes it possible to determine the sex of a fetus"
Medical Definition of Sex chromatin
1. Condensed chromatin of the inactivated X chromosome in female mammals (Barr body). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Literary usage of Sex chromatin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Protozoölogy by Gary Nathan Calkins (1909)
"the early hypothesis of Balfour and Minot that the nucleus of the primordial egg
or sperm cell contains both kinds of sex chromatin, the opposite kind being ..."
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