what is CHIMERA?

Answer 1

a Chimera is an animal that is part lion and part my other beasts...it is a hybrid....it also has multiple different sets of DNA like the male excrement will be one type and the saliva will be another type of DNA.

Answer 2

In zoology, chimera is an animal which has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes; if the different cells emerged from the same zygote, it is called a mosaicism. It is either acquired through the infusion of allogeneic hematopoietic cells during transplantation or transfusion or it is inherited. In fraternal twins, chimerism occurs by means of blood-vessel anastomoses. Chimeras were named after the mythological creature Chimera.

Chimeras are formed from either four parent cells (two fertilized eggs or early embryos are fused together) or three parent cells (a fertilized egg is fused with an unfertilized egg or a fertilized egg is fused with an extra sperm). Each population of cells keeps its own character and the resulting animal is a mosaic of mis-matched parts. An analogy is two jigsaw puzzles cut using an identical cutter, but with different pictures. You can make a single puzzle out of the mis-matched parts, but the completed puzzle will show parts of both different pictures. The likelihood of a child being a chimera is increased if the child is created via in vitro fertilization. Chimeras can often breed, but the fertility and type of offspring depends on which cell line gave rise to the ovaries or testes.

Answer 3

Chimera is a most general word which will be used in many fields including genetics, zoology, software etc.,

Chimera is a World Wide Web browser for UNIX-based machines running the X window ... Chimera 2 is a complete rewrite. It is a currently an alpha quality ...

In zoology, chimera is an animal which has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes; if the different cells emerged from the same zygote, it is called a mosaicism. It is either acquired through the infusion of allogeneic hematopoietic cells during transplantation or transfusion or it is inherited. In fraternal twins, chimerism occurs by means of blood-vessel anastomoses. Chimeras were named after the mythological creature Chimera.

In biological research, chimeras are artificially produced by mixing cells from two different organisms. This can result in the eventual development of an adult animal composed of cells from both donors, which may be of different species — for example, in 1984 a chimeric geep was produced by combining embryos from a goat and a sheep. A chicken with a quail's brain has been produced by grafting portions of a quail embryo into a chicken embryo.

Interspecies chimeras are made in the laboratory. In addition to the famous geep, there are rat/mouse chimeras and a rabbit/human chimera that was not allowed to develop beyond a few days. Like hybrids, the parent species must be closely enough related in order to produce live offspring that are relatively healthy. Chimeras between different varieties of mice are relatively common in embryology. By fusing cells of differently coloured or otherwise genetically distinct mice, researchers have been able to see how embryos form and which structures are related (arise from which line of cells).

In August 2003, researchers at the Shanghai Second Medical University in China reported that they had successfully fused human skin cells and rabbit eggs to create the first human chimeric embryos. The embryos were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory setting, then destroyed to harvest the resulting stem cells. Increasingly realizable projects using part-human, part-animal chimeras as living factories for producing cells or organs for xenotransplantation raise a host of ethical and safety issues.

During November 2006 UK researchers from the University of Newcastle and Kings College London applied to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for a three-year licence to fuse human DNA with cow eggs. The proposal is to insert human DNA into a cow's egg which has had its genetic material removed, and then create an embryo by the same technique that produced Dolly the Sheep. The resulting embryo would be 99.9% human; the only bovine element would be DNA outside the nucleus of the cell.

Chimeras should not be confused with hybrids, which are organisms formed from two gametes (each from a different species) which result in a single zygote. All cells in a hybrid originate from this single zygote. For example, a mule is a hybrid created from the sperm of a donkey and the egg of a horse.

Chimeras should also not be confused with mosaics, which are organisms with genetically different cell types, but which again originate from a single zygote.

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Answer 4

A fertilized egg has no soul. Animals have not got any soul. had to make sure what a chimera grew to become into nonetheless. i do no longer think of that the soul comes into play till there is theory in touch.

Answer 5

A chimera is a fictional beast with three heads.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera

Answer 7

I think you are referring to the highly extensible, interactive molecular graphics program, which bears that trade-name. For full details, please refer to :
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/

Answer 8

Chimaera is a member of group of cartilaginous fish related to sharks.

In Greek mythology, the Chimera (Greek Χίμαιρα (Chímaira); Latin Chimaera) is a monstrous creature made of the parts of multiple animals. Chimera was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and sister of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra. Descriptions vary – some say it had the body of a goat, the tail of a snake or dragon and the head of a lion, though others say it had heads of both the goat and lion, with a snake for a tail. It is generally considered to have been female, despite the mane adorning its lion's head. All descriptions, however, agree that it breathed fire from one or more of its heads. Sighting the chimera was a sign of storms, shipwrecks, and natural disasters (particularly volcanos). In Medieval Christian art, the chimera appears as a symbol of Satanic forces.

Chimaera in antiquity, in addition to being the name of a monster, was the name of a volcanic site which was held, by euhemerizing geographers, to have inspired the myth

In zoology, chimera is an animal which has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes; if the different cells emerged from the same zygote, it is called a mosaicism. It is either acquired through the infusion of allogeneic hematopoietic cells during transplantation or transfusion or it is inherited. In fraternal twins, chimerism occurs by means of blood-vessel anastomoses. Chimeras were named after the mythological creature Chimera.

Chimeras are formed from four parent cells (two fertilized eggs or early embryos are fused together) or three parent cells (a fertilized egg is fused with an unfertilized egg or a fertilized egg is fused with an extra sperm). Each population of cells keeps its own character and the resulting animal is a mosaic of mis-matched parts. An analogy is two jigsaw puzzles cut using an identical cutter, but with different pictures. You can make a single puzzle out of the mis-matched parts, but the completed puzzle will show parts of both different pictures. The likelihood of a child being a chimera is increased if the child is created via in vitro fertilization. Chimeras can often breed, but the fertility and type of offspring depends on which cell line gave rise to the ovaries or testes.

Chimeras (or "chimaeras") in botany are usually single organisms composed of two genetically different types of tissue. They occur in plants, on the same general basis as with animal chimeras. However, unlike animal chimeras, both types of tissues may have originated from the same zygote, and the difference is often due to mutation during ordinary cell division. this is called a mosaicism


[edit] Chimera (virus) defined
The term chimera was originally defined as an individual organism whose body contained cell populations from different zygotes or an organism that developed from portions of different embryos. The USDA Center for Veterinary Biologics refined this definition as it refers to vaccines, stating that the term chimera is to be used for a, “new hybrid microorganism created by joining nucleic acid fragments from two or more different microorganisms in which each of at least two of the fragments contain essential genes necessary for replication.”

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A Chimera (or chimeric protein) is a human-engineered or in vivo mutated protein that is encoded by a nucleotide sequence made by a splicing together of two or more complete or partial genes or cDNA. The pieces used may be from different species. One example is the Philadelphia chromosome mutation which leads to Chronic myelogenous leukemia in humans.

Chimeric proteins can be manufactured with toxins or anti-bodies attached to them in order to study disease development. Mostly, these chimeras are generated by overlap extension PCR or by ligating two pieces of cDNA and are then cloned into a plasmid, that is able to express the chimeric gene in a cellular environment.

UCSF Chimera or (Chimera) is an interactive molecular graphics program developed by the University of California, San Francisco. It is the successor to UCSF Midas and MidasPlus. UCSF Chimera can be downloaded free of charge for academic, government, non-profit, and personal use.



Chimaera (Star Wars), an Imperial Star Destroyer in the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn
Chimaera (Well of Echoes), a novel by Ian Irvine
Chimera (CrossGen), a comic book published by CrossGen Entertainment] in 2003
Chimera (DS9 episode), a season 7 episode in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Chimera (Fullmetal Alchemist), characters in the anime series Fullmetal Alchemist
Chimera (John Barth novel)
"Chimera" (Stargate SG-1)
Chimera Anima, a name grouping all mutated monsters appearing in Tokyo Mew Mew
"Chimera", an episode of The X-files
A race in the collectible card game Duel Masters
A virus in the movie Mission: Impossible II
Composite creatures in the anime series Slayers

[edit] In music
Chimera (album), a 2003 album by Delerium
Chimera (Mayhem album)
Chimera (Andromeda album)
"Chimera", a song by Duncan Sheik from a version of Daylight
Chimaira, a Thrash Metal band from Cleveland, Ohio
"Chimaera", a song by Bad Religion off their 1992 album Generator
Chimera, a compilation album by Bill Nelson
"Chimera", a song from The Tea Party's 1999 album TRIPtych

Answer 9

it was said to have the head of a lion, a body of a goat and a tail that was a snake

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera

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