accessory chromosome
Biology
noun
A chromosome that differs in form or behaviour from the usual chromosomes of a species; (in early use) especially a sex chromosome or B chromosome.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Clarence Erwin McClung (1870–1946).
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- bellbird
- bell-bottomed
- bell-bottoms
- bellboy
- bell buoy
- bell captain
- bell crank
- bell-crank lever
- bell curve
- belle
- Belleau Wood
- bellend
- Bellerophon
- belles-lettres
- belletrism
- belletrist
- belletristic
- Belleville
- Bellevue
- belle époque
- bellflower
- Bell Gardens
- Bell, Gertrude
- bell glass