Word: chromo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when a nun's self-sacrifice becomes actual crucifixion. But where he should use a No. 3 paintbrush, Buñuel too often employs a palette knife. What is intended as subtle Human Comedy becomes broadly laughable, as when Jesus and his disciples run through the woods in chromo-colored sequences, or when Mary miraculously appears after a hunter has shot a rosary from a tree branch, or when an unintentionally effeminate devil (Pierre Clementi) pops up in the back of a wrecked automobile...
Supermale? Nature intended every man and woman to have 46 chromo somes per cell: 22 pairs of autosomes, which determine countless characteristics other than sex, and two gonosomes or sex chromosomes. In the female, these are a pair of Xs; in the male, an X and a Y (see diagram). When a sperm fertilizes an ovum, each supplies half the 46 chromosomes for the combination of cells that will grow into a baby. If the sperm contains an X chromosome, the baby gets that X plus one from the mother, and will be an XX girl. If the sperm contains...
...need to duck the test and readily submitted to having a few cells scraped from inside her cheek for chromosome analysis. On the basis of the microscope's evidence, three Russian and three Hungarian doctors gave the fatal verdict: Ewa is not a woman because she has "one chromo some too many...
...geneticists was that the breaks and other abnormalities appear to be identical with those known to be associated with some congenital disorders. At successive stages of damage and attempted self-repair, chromosomes are found with notched or broken arms, with translocations in which a detached arm of one chromo some gets stuck to another, and quadriradial or cross shapes. Such abnormalities appear in some cases of mongolism as well as in several severe forms of anemia that are accompanied by stunted growth and other physical defects, and in leukemia-to which victims of these disorders are especially susceptible...
...every silver lining has its cloud, and Sister Smile's is The Singing Nun, a chromo-colored, semifictional biography starring Debbie Reynolds in the title role...