Cytodeme first emerged as a printed word in the 1950s in a book by Heslop-Harrison.Heslop-Harrison,1953.New Concepts in Flowering Plant Taxonomy Heineman, London Discussing the Deme TerminologyGilmour & Gregor, 1939. "Demes:a suggested new terminology" Nature, London 144:333-334 - he continued "cytodeme, a population differing in some distinctive cytological feature from others." More precisely the cytodeme may be defined as the total assembly of all those individuals/organisms that use an identical specific suite of chromosomes to carry their genes. In most cases the suite is composed of several pairs of homologous chromosomes with or without a pair of sex chromosomes. Since the only acceptable proof of the identity (homology) of chromosomes lies in their ability to pair fully from end to end during meiosis it follows that:
The Cytodeme is the total assembly of organisms that use an identical suite of chromosomes to carry their genes. The term was first printed in the 1950s in a book by Heslop-Harrison.Heslop-Harrison,1953.New Concepts in Flowering Plant Taxonomy Heineman, London Discussing the Deme TerminologyGilmour & Gregor, 1939. "Demes:a suggested new terminology" Nature, London 144:333-334 - he continued "cytodeme, a population differing in some distinctive cytological feature from others." In most cases the suite is composed of several pairs of homologous chromosomes with or without a pair of sex chromosomes. Since the only acceptable proof of the identity (homology) of chromosomes lies in their ability to pair fully from end to end during meiosis it follows that:
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Cytodeme first emerged as a printed word
The Cytodeme is the total assembly of organisms that use an identical suite of chromosomes to carry their genes. The term was first printed
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More precisely the cytodeme may be defined as the total assembly of all those individuals/organisms that use an identical specific suite of chromosomes to carry their genes.