8-Letter Words Ending: OSOME

• an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells)

• a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg

• an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector

• an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell

• The chromosome whose homologous counterpart is missing in monosomy.

• any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa