Term: chimera
Literally
meaning: “one year old female goat”
χίμαιρα/chimera=one year (winter) old
female goat
>χειμών/xhimon(=winter) >(adj) χειμερινός/chimerinos (=wintry)
>+ αίγα/ega(=goat)
Coined/History
According to Homer (Illiad)
the Chimera was a female monster that composed of several different animals: a lion’s head, a goat’s body and sometimes head, and a
serpent’s tail. She was considered as the personification of winter.
Definition
1.
an organism or tissue with
genetically distinct cells from two different zygotes
2.
a fusion protein, made by
the splicing of two genes
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