Word: ohno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cancer-research project at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., a Japanese-born geneticist nailed the answer down. Dr. Susumu Ohno showed that the spot was an X (female) chromosome. But he also determined that it was only one of the X chromosomes...
...from the mother, and two gonosomes (sex chromosomes). In a woman, the gonosomes are both Xs, one each from father and mother; in a man, they are an X from mother and a Y from father. Among the autosomes, the two members of each pair behave alike. But the Ohno team showed that a woman's two Xs behave quite differently (except in her egg cells). One acts like an autosome, and so does a man's single X. But a woman's second X curls up on itself and becomes condensed, so that it appears...
...Cadillacs to the convention hall, the candidates bargained furiously to put together a stop-Ikeda ticket. But Ikeda was backed by two banks, a shipbuilder, the Nomura Securities Co. and much of the old Mitsui industrial combine, as well as by Premier Kishi. One rival, Party Vice President Bamboku Ohno, wailed: "I have locked up in a safe Kishi's written promise to make me Japan's next Premier." .Maybe he did. But Kishi stuck with Ikeda. At the last minute. Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama tossed Ikeda a block of 49 votes that had cost a reported...