Definition of chimera in English:

chimera

(also chimaera)

noun kɪˈmɪərəkʌɪˈmɪərə

1(in Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
（希腊神话）客迈拉（狮首、羊身、蛇尾的吐火女妖）
Example sentencesExamples
- Green ones with crosses, orange ones with lions and chimeras, all seemed to glow with pride in the high sun.
- If we were to engineer a genuine goat/snake/lion chimera (complete with firebreathing ability) would it be in pain, or unhappy?
- In the myth, it was Bellerophon, straddling the winged horse Pegasus, who finally slew the fire-breathing chimera.
- She notes that in Greek mythology, that third was known as a chimera.
- In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing monster that combined the parts of a goat, a lion and a serpent.
1. 1.1 Any mythical animal formed from parts of various animals.
  （神话中身体各部来自不同动物的）怪物
  Example sentencesExamples
  As far as I know, a chimera is a mythological monster comprising the parts of various different animals.
  And every cell in the chimera's body could be from either one species or the other.
  They typically demand some bizarre chimera: a part goat, part rooster sort of monster appropriate to a medieval bestiary or science fiction.
  ‘The way was guarded by lions and chimeras and manticores and logicians and other ferocious beasts,’ says Giblets.
  She knew that a chimera was a person or animal fused with other creatures.
2A thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve.
幻想；妄想
the economic sovereignty you claim to defend is a chimera
你声称要维护的经济主权仅仅是一种妄想。
Example sentencesExamples
- As all three books make abundantly clear, nobody nowadays believes in that old chimera, ‘objective’ or ‘scientific’ history.
- Rationality in science is sometimes a chimera, and the border between magic and science is easily crossed; it depends on attitude, information available, and context.
- The key problem for both scholars is the illusion, a chimera, that the Bible has what could be realistically described as a middle, or even a central theme.
- Do you not know how idiotic the chimeras are, Kirei?
- Achieving a bipartisan consensus on pensions is not an unachievable chimera.
- What kind of subjectivity can we assign to these chimeras, these fictions of a hopeful science?
- Perhaps, to paraphrase Iver Neumann, it is neither digitality nor diaspora but our uses of them - much like our uses of the other - that offer a chimera of hope.
- As Colin Gunton observes, ‘The biblical message, in the sense of a finally adequate or even provisionally complete account of biblical teaching, is a chimera.’
- Unfortunately, many critics of the Times are conflating this notion of journalistic execution with the chimera of total journalistic objectivity.
- Professionals invariably dominate such bodies, making consensus a chimera.
- As a young man, he ‘crossed the square’ from a life of student radicalism to journalism - only to discover the news in his totalitarian state was less real than the chimeras of philosophy.
- Moreover, academic freedom is an Enlightenment chimera and autonomy is a secular principle, not a Christian virtue.
- He's now got a month and a half to create some convincing chimera that the American people can invest with their hopes and dreams.
- Likewise one may call the price index a ‘statistical illusion’ based on the chimera of a fixed basket of products as the unit of measurement.
- Definitive truth is a chimera that does not belong to science after all.
Synonyms
illusion, fantasy, delusion, dream, fancy, figment of the imagination, will-o'-the-wisp, phantom, mirage
Latin ignis fatuus
3Biology
An organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation.
〔生〕嵌合体；嫁接杂种
the sheeplike goat chimera
似绵羊的杂交山羊。
Example sentencesExamples
- You see stem cells facilitate the production of organisms called interspecies chimeras, that is living quilts of human and animal tissues.
- Perhaps his most elegant experiment was to make aggregation chimeras of embryos from high, control, and low lines.
- Scientists can create animals with the cells of other species, but are these chimeras medical marvels or high-tech monsters?
- Biologists call these hybrid animals chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
- But calling this mouse a ‘chimera’ is misleading - the term should be reserved for true genetically engineered chimeras.
1. 3.1 A DNA molecule with sequences derived from two or more different organisms, formed by laboratory manipulation.
  脱氧核糖核酸嵌合体，嵌合DNA
  Example sentencesExamples
  After construction of the chimeras by overlapping PCR, all of the chimeric genes were cloned into integrating vectors under control of the SEC9 or the SPO20 promoter.
  Spontaneous SOS gene expression was measured in strain GY7109 recA carrying plasmids with different recAX chimeras.
  In all, the germline chimeras derived from these five cell lines sired 326 progeny in matings to B6 females, but no deletion-bearing offspring were observed.
  Therefore, this gene is a chimera consisting of the first exon of CG11779 and the second and third exons of Adh.
  Banning gene patents and chimeras won't save a single human life.
4A cartilaginous marine fish with a long tail, an erect spine before the first dorsal fin, and typically a forward projection from the snout.
银鲛
Subclass Hoplocephali: three families, in particular Chimaeridae. See also rabbitfish, ratfish
Example sentencesExamples
- In the living chimaeras, Callorhinchus and Chimaera, the authors were able to show the persisting boundaries between the individual teeth.
- The feature was previously unknown in sharks and other chondrichthyans, an order of fish whose modern descendants include sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.
- The group is divided into two very different subclasses, which separated very early on: the Elasmobranchii (sharks, skates and rays) and the Holocephali (the chimaeras, such as the ratfish and elephant fish).
- Like those distant relatives, chimaeras have skeletons of cartilage, not bone.

Derivatives

chimeric

adjective kɪˈmɛrɪkkʌɪˈmɛrɪk

Now Weissman says he is thinking about making chimeric mice whose brains are 100 percent human.
Example sentencesExamples
- We propose that the evolution and amplification of the novel chimeric gene have led to the overproduction of the regulatory CK2 subunit in testes.
- Upbringing, heredity - all chimaeric at best, clumsy indicators of who I was or was not.
- Let us hope that is the case, that it is nothing more than chimeric gloom, because this cloud is a black one indeed and very hard to dismiss in light of recent headlines.
- Bruce Lehman echoed Justice Potter Stewart's famous definition of obscenity when asked what he thought would constitute a chimeric human.

chimerical

adjective kʌɪˈmɛrɪk(ə)lkɪˈmɛrɪk(ə)l

No, instead they spend their time pursuing chimerical sources and putting a fictional story on the air claiming their unimpeachable sources.
Example sentencesExamples
- When such ‘conflicts’ are alleged, it is always important to try to separate the real from the (more usual) chimerical.
- Many amazing opportunities lie ahead; I'd hate for you to miss out because you were too busy pursuing a chimerical and ultimately fruitless daydream.
- Attention to the chimerical task of divining a patient's early traumas is attention subtracted from sensible help in the here and now.
- As a Marxist, Hathaway subscribes to the notion of sociality, a chimerical trapping of Marxist eschatology, and therefore has much invested in the idea of the social.

chimerically

adverbkɪˈmɛrɪk(ə)likʌɪˈmɛrɪk(ə)li

In this paper, I take seriously the notion that the consumption of such chimerically constructed commodities should be considered neither irrelevant nor an outrage - two common responses.
Example sentencesExamples
- The majority of tracks clock in near the ten-minute mark and are rife with chimerically harnessed energy funneled into a myriad of outlets.
- For these artists art and craft practice has converged chimerically.
- A macronuclear pointer could derive entirely from the headpointer, entirely from the tailpointer, or chimerically from both, depending on the splice location.
- He has been archivist or records manager to a wide range of organisations from business to educational (and one - the Oxford University Press - that is chimerically both of the above!

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek khimaira 'she-goat or chimera'.

Rhymes

Altamira, clearer, Elvira, era, hearer, Hera, hetaera, interferer, lempira, lira, lire, Madeira, Megaera, monstera, rangatira, rearer, scorzonera, sera, shearer, smearer, sneerer, steerer, Thera, Utsire, Vera

Definition of chimera in US English:

chimera

(also chimaera)

noun

1Chimera(in Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
（希腊神话）客迈拉（狮首、羊身、蛇尾的吐火女妖）
Example sentencesExamples
- She notes that in Greek mythology, that third was known as a chimera.
- If we were to engineer a genuine goat/snake/lion chimera (complete with firebreathing ability) would it be in pain, or unhappy?
- Green ones with crosses, orange ones with lions and chimeras, all seemed to glow with pride in the high sun.
- In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing monster that combined the parts of a goat, a lion and a serpent.
- In the myth, it was Bellerophon, straddling the winged horse Pegasus, who finally slew the fire-breathing chimera.
1. 1.1 Any mythical animal with parts taken from various animals.
  （神话中身体各部来自不同动物的）怪物
  Example sentencesExamples
  As far as I know, a chimera is a mythological monster comprising the parts of various different animals.
  And every cell in the chimera's body could be from either one species or the other.
  They typically demand some bizarre chimera: a part goat, part rooster sort of monster appropriate to a medieval bestiary or science fiction.
  ‘The way was guarded by lions and chimeras and manticores and logicians and other ferocious beasts,’ says Giblets.
  She knew that a chimera was a person or animal fused with other creatures.
2A thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve.
幻想；妄想
the economic sovereignty you claim to defend is a chimera
你声称要维护的经济主权仅仅是一种妄想。
Example sentencesExamples
- Rationality in science is sometimes a chimera, and the border between magic and science is easily crossed; it depends on attitude, information available, and context.
- As a young man, he ‘crossed the square’ from a life of student radicalism to journalism - only to discover the news in his totalitarian state was less real than the chimeras of philosophy.
- As Colin Gunton observes, ‘The biblical message, in the sense of a finally adequate or even provisionally complete account of biblical teaching, is a chimera.’
- As all three books make abundantly clear, nobody nowadays believes in that old chimera, ‘objective’ or ‘scientific’ history.
- He's now got a month and a half to create some convincing chimera that the American people can invest with their hopes and dreams.
- Perhaps, to paraphrase Iver Neumann, it is neither digitality nor diaspora but our uses of them - much like our uses of the other - that offer a chimera of hope.
- The key problem for both scholars is the illusion, a chimera, that the Bible has what could be realistically described as a middle, or even a central theme.
- Do you not know how idiotic the chimeras are, Kirei?
- Professionals invariably dominate such bodies, making consensus a chimera.
- Moreover, academic freedom is an Enlightenment chimera and autonomy is a secular principle, not a Christian virtue.
- Achieving a bipartisan consensus on pensions is not an unachievable chimera.
- Likewise one may call the price index a ‘statistical illusion’ based on the chimera of a fixed basket of products as the unit of measurement.
- Definitive truth is a chimera that does not belong to science after all.
- What kind of subjectivity can we assign to these chimeras, these fictions of a hopeful science?
- Unfortunately, many critics of the Times are conflating this notion of journalistic execution with the chimera of total journalistic objectivity.
Synonyms
illusion, fantasy, delusion, dream, fancy, figment of the imagination, will-o'-the-wisp, phantom, mirage
3Biology
An organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation.
〔生〕嵌合体；嫁接杂种
the sheeplike goat chimera
似绵羊的杂交山羊。
Example sentencesExamples
- Scientists can create animals with the cells of other species, but are these chimeras medical marvels or high-tech monsters?
- But calling this mouse a ‘chimera’ is misleading - the term should be reserved for true genetically engineered chimeras.
- You see stem cells facilitate the production of organisms called interspecies chimeras, that is living quilts of human and animal tissues.
- Biologists call these hybrid animals chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
- Perhaps his most elegant experiment was to make aggregation chimeras of embryos from high, control, and low lines.
1. 3.1 A DNA molecule with sequences derived from two or more different organisms, formed by laboratory manipulation.
  脱氧核糖核酸嵌合体，嵌合DNA
  Example sentencesExamples
  In all, the germline chimeras derived from these five cell lines sired 326 progeny in matings to B6 females, but no deletion-bearing offspring were observed.
  Therefore, this gene is a chimera consisting of the first exon of CG11779 and the second and third exons of Adh.
  Banning gene patents and chimeras won't save a single human life.
  After construction of the chimeras by overlapping PCR, all of the chimeric genes were cloned into integrating vectors under control of the SEC9 or the SPO20 promoter.
  Spontaneous SOS gene expression was measured in strain GY7109 recA carrying plasmids with different recAX chimeras.
4A cartilaginous marine fish with a long tail, an erect spine before the first dorsal fin, and typically a forward projection from the snout.
银鲛
Subclass Hoplocephali: three families, in particular Chimaeridae. See also rabbitfish, ratfish
Example sentencesExamples
- Like those distant relatives, chimaeras have skeletons of cartilage, not bone.
- In the living chimaeras, Callorhinchus and Chimaera, the authors were able to show the persisting boundaries between the individual teeth.
- The group is divided into two very different subclasses, which separated very early on: the Elasmobranchii (sharks, skates and rays) and the Holocephali (the chimaeras, such as the ratfish and elephant fish).
- The feature was previously unknown in sharks and other chondrichthyans, an order of fish whose modern descendants include sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek khimaira ‘she-goat or chimera’.

词汇	chimera
释义	Definition of chimera in English: chimera (also chimaera) noun kɪˈmɪərəkʌɪˈmɪərə 1(in Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. （希腊神话）客迈拉（狮首、羊身、蛇尾的吐火女妖） Example sentencesExamples Green ones with crosses, orange ones with lions and chimeras, all seemed to glow with pride in the high sun. If we were to engineer a genuine goat/snake/lion chimera (complete with firebreathing ability) would it be in pain, or unhappy? In the myth, it was Bellerophon, straddling the winged horse Pegasus, who finally slew the fire-breathing chimera. She notes that in Greek mythology, that third was known as a chimera. In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing monster that combined the parts of a goat, a lion and a serpent. 1.1 Any mythical animal formed from parts of various animals. （神话中身体各部来自不同动物的）怪物 Example sentencesExamples As far as I know, a chimera is a mythological monster comprising the parts of various different animals. And every cell in the chimera's body could be from either one species or the other. They typically demand some bizarre chimera: a part goat, part rooster sort of monster appropriate to a medieval bestiary or science fiction. ‘The way was guarded by lions and chimeras and manticores and logicians and other ferocious beasts,’ says Giblets. She knew that a chimera was a person or animal fused with other creatures. 2A thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve. 幻想；妄想 the economic sovereignty you claim to defend is a chimera 你声称要维护的经济主权仅仅是一种妄想。 Example sentencesExamples As all three books make abundantly clear, nobody nowadays believes in that old chimera, ‘objective’ or ‘scientific’ history. Rationality in science is sometimes a chimera, and the border between magic and science is easily crossed; it depends on attitude, information available, and context. The key problem for both scholars is the illusion, a chimera, that the Bible has what could be realistically described as a middle, or even a central theme. Do you not know how idiotic the chimeras are, Kirei? Achieving a bipartisan consensus on pensions is not an unachievable chimera. What kind of subjectivity can we assign to these chimeras, these fictions of a hopeful science? Perhaps, to paraphrase Iver Neumann, it is neither digitality nor diaspora but our uses of them - much like our uses of the other - that offer a chimera of hope. As Colin Gunton observes, ‘The biblical message, in the sense of a finally adequate or even provisionally complete account of biblical teaching, is a chimera.’ Unfortunately, many critics of the Times are conflating this notion of journalistic execution with the chimera of total journalistic objectivity. Professionals invariably dominate such bodies, making consensus a chimera. As a young man, he ‘crossed the square’ from a life of student radicalism to journalism - only to discover the news in his totalitarian state was less real than the chimeras of philosophy. Moreover, academic freedom is an Enlightenment chimera and autonomy is a secular principle, not a Christian virtue. He's now got a month and a half to create some convincing chimera that the American people can invest with their hopes and dreams. Likewise one may call the price index a ‘statistical illusion’ based on the chimera of a fixed basket of products as the unit of measurement. Definitive truth is a chimera that does not belong to science after all. Synonyms illusion, fantasy, delusion, dream, fancy, figment of the imagination, will-o'-the-wisp, phantom, mirage Latin ignis fatuus 3Biology An organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation. 〔生〕嵌合体；嫁接杂种 the sheeplike goat chimera 似绵羊的杂交山羊。 Example sentencesExamples You see stem cells facilitate the production of organisms called interspecies chimeras, that is living quilts of human and animal tissues. Perhaps his most elegant experiment was to make aggregation chimeras of embryos from high, control, and low lines. Scientists can create animals with the cells of other species, but are these chimeras medical marvels or high-tech monsters? Biologists call these hybrid animals chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. But calling this mouse a ‘chimera’ is misleading - the term should be reserved for true genetically engineered chimeras. 3.1 A DNA molecule with sequences derived from two or more different organisms, formed by laboratory manipulation. 脱氧核糖核酸嵌合体，嵌合DNA Example sentencesExamples After construction of the chimeras by overlapping PCR, all of the chimeric genes were cloned into integrating vectors under control of the SEC9 or the SPO20 promoter. Spontaneous SOS gene expression was measured in strain GY7109 recA carrying plasmids with different recAX chimeras. In all, the germline chimeras derived from these five cell lines sired 326 progeny in matings to B6 females, but no deletion-bearing offspring were observed. Therefore, this gene is a chimera consisting of the first exon of CG11779 and the second and third exons of Adh. Banning gene patents and chimeras won't save a single human life. 4A cartilaginous marine fish with a long tail, an erect spine before the first dorsal fin, and typically a forward projection from the snout. 银鲛 Subclass Hoplocephali: three families, in particular Chimaeridae. See also rabbitfish, ratfish Example sentencesExamples In the living chimaeras, Callorhinchus and Chimaera, the authors were able to show the persisting boundaries between the individual teeth. The feature was previously unknown in sharks and other chondrichthyans, an order of fish whose modern descendants include sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras. The group is divided into two very different subclasses, which separated very early on: the Elasmobranchii (sharks, skates and rays) and the Holocephali (the chimaeras, such as the ratfish and elephant fish). Like those distant relatives, chimaeras have skeletons of cartilage, not bone. Derivatives chimeric adjective kɪˈmɛrɪkkʌɪˈmɛrɪk Now Weissman says he is thinking about making chimeric mice whose brains are 100 percent human. Example sentencesExamples We propose that the evolution and amplification of the novel chimeric gene have led to the overproduction of the regulatory CK2 subunit in testes. Upbringing, heredity - all chimaeric at best, clumsy indicators of who I was or was not. Let us hope that is the case, that it is nothing more than chimeric gloom, because this cloud is a black one indeed and very hard to dismiss in light of recent headlines. Bruce Lehman echoed Justice Potter Stewart's famous definition of obscenity when asked what he thought would constitute a chimeric human. chimerical adjective kʌɪˈmɛrɪk(ə)lkɪˈmɛrɪk(ə)l No, instead they spend their time pursuing chimerical sources and putting a fictional story on the air claiming their unimpeachable sources. Example sentencesExamples When such ‘conflicts’ are alleged, it is always important to try to separate the real from the (more usual) chimerical. Many amazing opportunities lie ahead; I'd hate for you to miss out because you were too busy pursuing a chimerical and ultimately fruitless daydream. Attention to the chimerical task of divining a patient's early traumas is attention subtracted from sensible help in the here and now. As a Marxist, Hathaway subscribes to the notion of sociality, a chimerical trapping of Marxist eschatology, and therefore has much invested in the idea of the social. chimerically adverbkɪˈmɛrɪk(ə)likʌɪˈmɛrɪk(ə)li In this paper, I take seriously the notion that the consumption of such chimerically constructed commodities should be considered neither irrelevant nor an outrage - two common responses. Example sentencesExamples The majority of tracks clock in near the ten-minute mark and are rife with chimerically harnessed energy funneled into a myriad of outlets. For these artists art and craft practice has converged chimerically. A macronuclear pointer could derive entirely from the headpointer, entirely from the tailpointer, or chimerically from both, depending on the splice location. He has been archivist or records manager to a wide range of organisations from business to educational (and one - the Oxford University Press - that is chimerically both of the above! Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek khimaira 'she-goat or chimera'. Rhymes Altamira, clearer, Elvira, era, hearer, Hera, hetaera, interferer, lempira, lira, lire, Madeira, Megaera, monstera, rangatira, rearer, scorzonera, sera, shearer, smearer, sneerer, steerer, Thera, Utsire, Vera Definition of chimera in US English: chimera (also chimaera) noun 1Chimera(in Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. （希腊神话）客迈拉（狮首、羊身、蛇尾的吐火女妖） Example sentencesExamples She notes that in Greek mythology, that third was known as a chimera. If we were to engineer a genuine goat/snake/lion chimera (complete with firebreathing ability) would it be in pain, or unhappy? Green ones with crosses, orange ones with lions and chimeras, all seemed to glow with pride in the high sun. In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing monster that combined the parts of a goat, a lion and a serpent. In the myth, it was Bellerophon, straddling the winged horse Pegasus, who finally slew the fire-breathing chimera. 1.1 Any mythical animal with parts taken from various animals. （神话中身体各部来自不同动物的）怪物 Example sentencesExamples As far as I know, a chimera is a mythological monster comprising the parts of various different animals. And every cell in the chimera's body could be from either one species or the other. They typically demand some bizarre chimera: a part goat, part rooster sort of monster appropriate to a medieval bestiary or science fiction. ‘The way was guarded by lions and chimeras and manticores and logicians and other ferocious beasts,’ says Giblets. She knew that a chimera was a person or animal fused with other creatures. 2A thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve. 幻想；妄想 the economic sovereignty you claim to defend is a chimera 你声称要维护的经济主权仅仅是一种妄想。 Example sentencesExamples Rationality in science is sometimes a chimera, and the border between magic and science is easily crossed; it depends on attitude, information available, and context. As a young man, he ‘crossed the square’ from a life of student radicalism to journalism - only to discover the news in his totalitarian state was less real than the chimeras of philosophy. As Colin Gunton observes, ‘The biblical message, in the sense of a finally adequate or even provisionally complete account of biblical teaching, is a chimera.’ As all three books make abundantly clear, nobody nowadays believes in that old chimera, ‘objective’ or ‘scientific’ history. He's now got a month and a half to create some convincing chimera that the American people can invest with their hopes and dreams. Perhaps, to paraphrase Iver Neumann, it is neither digitality nor diaspora but our uses of them - much like our uses of the other - that offer a chimera of hope. The key problem for both scholars is the illusion, a chimera, that the Bible has what could be realistically described as a middle, or even a central theme. Do you not know how idiotic the chimeras are, Kirei? Professionals invariably dominate such bodies, making consensus a chimera. Moreover, academic freedom is an Enlightenment chimera and autonomy is a secular principle, not a Christian virtue. Achieving a bipartisan consensus on pensions is not an unachievable chimera. Likewise one may call the price index a ‘statistical illusion’ based on the chimera of a fixed basket of products as the unit of measurement. Definitive truth is a chimera that does not belong to science after all. What kind of subjectivity can we assign to these chimeras, these fictions of a hopeful science? Unfortunately, many critics of the Times are conflating this notion of journalistic execution with the chimera of total journalistic objectivity. Synonyms illusion, fantasy, delusion, dream, fancy, figment of the imagination, will-o'-the-wisp, phantom, mirage 3Biology An organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation. 〔生〕嵌合体；嫁接杂种 the sheeplike goat chimera 似绵羊的杂交山羊。 Example sentencesExamples Scientists can create animals with the cells of other species, but are these chimeras medical marvels or high-tech monsters? But calling this mouse a ‘chimera’ is misleading - the term should be reserved for true genetically engineered chimeras. You see stem cells facilitate the production of organisms called interspecies chimeras, that is living quilts of human and animal tissues. Biologists call these hybrid animals chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. Perhaps his most elegant experiment was to make aggregation chimeras of embryos from high, control, and low lines. 3.1 A DNA molecule with sequences derived from two or more different organisms, formed by laboratory manipulation. 脱氧核糖核酸嵌合体，嵌合DNA Example sentencesExamples In all, the germline chimeras derived from these five cell lines sired 326 progeny in matings to B6 females, but no deletion-bearing offspring were observed. Therefore, this gene is a chimera consisting of the first exon of CG11779 and the second and third exons of Adh. Banning gene patents and chimeras won't save a single human life. After construction of the chimeras by overlapping PCR, all of the chimeric genes were cloned into integrating vectors under control of the SEC9 or the SPO20 promoter. Spontaneous SOS gene expression was measured in strain GY7109 recA carrying plasmids with different recAX chimeras. 4A cartilaginous marine fish with a long tail, an erect spine before the first dorsal fin, and typically a forward projection from the snout. 银鲛 Subclass Hoplocephali: three families, in particular Chimaeridae. See also rabbitfish, ratfish Example sentencesExamples Like those distant relatives, chimaeras have skeletons of cartilage, not bone. In the living chimaeras, Callorhinchus and Chimaera, the authors were able to show the persisting boundaries between the individual teeth. The group is divided into two very different subclasses, which separated very early on: the Elasmobranchii (sharks, skates and rays) and the Holocephali (the chimaeras, such as the ratfish and elephant fish). The feature was previously unknown in sharks and other chondrichthyans, an order of fish whose modern descendants include sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras. Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek khimaira ‘she-goat or chimera’.
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