Biology

chimera

Term: chimera

Literally meaning: ?one year old female goat?

Origin: Anc Greek

???????/chimera=one year (winter) old female goat

>??????/xhimon(=winter) >(adj) ??????????/chimerinos (=wintry)

>+ ????/ega(=goat)

Coined/History

According to Homer (Illiad) the Chimera was a female monster that composed of several different animals: a lion?s head, a goat?s body and sometimes head, and a serpent?s tail. She was considered as the personification of winter.

Definition

1. an organism or tissue with genetically distinct cells from two different zygotes

2. a fusion protein, made by the splicing of two genes

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