CHIMERA....嵌合體 "1·a plant or plant part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, arising as a result of grafting, somatic mutation etc. " 嵌合體常由嫁接或突變造成植物體或部份植物體組織,因著基因組成而生的改變 "In such a way that the components are represented either as separate germinal layers of the apical meristem, giving rise to periclinal and mericlinal chimaeras in which one tissue is completely or partially enveloped by a ` skin ` of the other, or as discrete segments involving all layers of the apical meristem, forming sectorial chimaeras (W. Neilson-Jones, Plant chimeras, 1969, Methuen.) " ,嵌合體發生在植物的頂端分生組織上,可因為嵌合體的類型分periclinal and mericlinal chimaeras 的類型;指這嵌合現象可以如同被包覆在另一種植物體組織內的嵌合現象或如部份不相同的分生組織的嵌插在一種植物的莖頂的分生組織,造成片段型嵌合現象
2·A plant with several tissue sectors or layers differing in genetic or chromosomal constitution from the original plant. " 嵌合體植物因多種組織融合分化而成(或說由不同的遺傳或染色體組成而形成的新種植物) 希望字面上直譯沒造成多的誤解..請大家多多指正囉 祝福各位