Winkler, H. (botanist) - Winkler

Japanese: ウィンクラー,H.(植物学者) - うぃんくらー
Winkler, H. (botanist) - Winkler

…It is named after the Greek mythological monster Chimera, with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail. In 1916, Winkler H. Winkler experimentally created a graft between a tomato and a nightshade plant, and called it a chimera. Since then, it has become a term in biology. In biology, a chimera is an individual organism that has three or more parents (i.e., one or more parents are required in addition to the parents) and is made up of two or more genetically different cells. …

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Japanese:

…ギリシア神話にでてくるライオンの頭とヤギの胴とヘビの尾をもつ怪物キマイラの名にちなむもので,1916年にウィンクラーH.Winklerがトマトとイヌホオズキの間で実験的に作りだした接木体をキメラと呼んで以来,生物学上の術語となった。生物学ではキメラとは親が三つ以上(つまり両親のほかにもう一つ以上親が必要)あり,二つ以上の遺伝的に異なった細胞から成る生物個体を指す。…

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