homogeneously staining region

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(thing) by BioTech (9 mon) (print)   (I like it!) Sat Feb 08 2003 at 3:22:22

A region on a chromosome which, when stained, is uniform in appearance. (Normally, a stained chromosome shows a banding pattern.) Homogeneously staining regions contain multiple copies of a single gene.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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