"In Greek mythology, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. Also a virus made in the laboratory by the mixing (recombination) of genetic material from other viruses. Normally done for peaceful purposes; has obvious military applicatons."

This strange beast comes out of Greek legends. It is said to have the head of a goat, lion, and dragon (or snake depending on the source)with various different parts of the three beasts making up the rest of the animal. One legend tells of Bellerophon (Greek hero) taming Pegasus to aid him in battle against the Chimera.

Greek (pronounced ky-MIR-uhs), mythical monsters with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. Today used to describe a mixing of biological molecules either: 1. animals that have been genetically engineered 2. development studies where different species cells have been mixed (for example, chick-quail chimera, More? Neural Crest Notes) 3. Modified proteins containing parts of 2 different proteins.

a) (biol.) An organism consisting of tissue or parts of diverse genetic constitution. b) (myth.) A fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. c) A wild and unrealistic dream or notion. d) A fabulous beast made up of parts taken from various animals.

In Greek mythology a chimera is a monster with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail.

(Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

a grotesque product of the imagination

a beast with three heads, from Greek mythology

a fire breathing she-monster from greek mythology and is usually composed of a goat, serpant and lion

a fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail

a grotesque monster

a group of fire-breathing she-monsters which is depicted as a composite of a Lion (head),Goat(body), and Serpent(tail)

a living creature composed of cells from more than one species - picture the lion headed, lizard bodied (or whatever it was) creature of Greek mythology

a mythical beast said to have the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon

a mythical monster, half-man, half-animal, all nonsense

a single creature with two sets of DNA

In general, any unique monster of the wilderness. Usually created by a Reaver or some unspeakable crossbreeding. Pronounced KY-mer-ah. Compare to Kraken.

According to Larrouse World Mythology, a classical mythological monster with a fire-breathing goatÂ's head, the fore-quarters of a lion, and the hind part of a dragon. Killed by the Coninthian hero, Bellerophon, on his winged horse, Pegasus. Also a statue near the Rayburn Office Building

Decorative motif which originated in classical mythology; combines the features of a winged goat or lion with a serpent's tail.

Fire-breathing she-monster, a composite of a lion, a goat and a serpent.

an organism which contains cells or tissues with a different genotype. This can result from mutated cells within the developing embryo of a single organism. It can also result from mixing cells from different individuals of the same species, or of individuals from different species. Fusion of embryos or insertion of cells from one embryo or from stem cells into another organism can be used to create chimeras. For example, laboratory mice have been created with human immune systems for the purpose of understanding various aspects of immune response. Chimeras can also result from grafting of tissue from one plant type onto another such as is done in agriculture (graft hybrid). Chimeras are also said to represent "genetic mosaics". Organisms which express both male and female characteristics by virtue of being a mosaic of male and female cells are referred to as "gyandromorphs". The mythological chimera had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent.

from Greek mythology, a fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, goat's body and dragon's tail.

Named after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail, a chimera is a mixture of two or more genetically distinct tissues in a single organism, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering. Human chimeras are not unnatural. For example, most mothers carry some cells from each of their children in their blood and most twins carry some cells from their sibling twins. Recipients of organs donated by other humans are chimeras and if you have had a heart valve replaced by a valve from a pig or a cow you are an animal-human chimera. Also, for many years now, scientists have been putting human genes into bacteria and farm animals in order to make useful human proteins such as the hormone insulin.

In Greek mythology, the Chimera (Greek Χίμαιρα (Chímaira); Latin Chimaera) is a monstrous creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, which was made of the parts of multiple animals. Chimera was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and sister of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra.

Chimera is a 1972 novel in the form of three loosely connected novellas by John Barth. The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid and Bellerophoniad, the eponyms of which are Dunyazad, Perseus and Bellerophon, the last of which slew the Chimera, another eponym. This work is a perfect example of postmodernism, with several Q&A sessions and three diagrams (all in Bellerophoniad.)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the chimera is a large magical beast that appears to be an amalgam of several different creatures. A chimera is usually chaotic evil in alignment.

A comical short story written by a Korean author Lee Yeongdo, based on the world of the novel Dragon Raja written by the same author. It is one of the three short stories known as Sceneries Of Laboratory. The story humors on male arrogance and characteristics, through a being called Chimera.

An organism that has been genetically engineered from the genetic material of two individuals, which may be from different species.

In genetics, an animal that has more than one genetically-distinct populations of cells derived from a more than one zygote. Derived experimentally by aggregation or mixing of multiple early embryos or naturally by such processes as exchange of blood between twin fetuses.

An animal or tissue composed of elements derived from genetically distinct individuals; also a protein molecule containing segments derived from different proteins.

an individual containing cells of two or more different tissues.

An organism composed of two or more genetically different cell types.

An animal made up of more than one different species.

A special kind of mosaicism in which an individual or tissue contains a mix of cells derived from two genetically different individuals. The blood of a patient who had a transfusion from another individual would be chimeric for example.

Organism composed of two genetically distinct types of cells. Can be formed by the fusion of two early blastula stage embryos or by the reconstitution of the bone marrow in an irradiated recipient or by somatic segregation.

An organism combining tissues derived from two or more genotypes.

Recombinant virus made from genetic mixing of multiple viruses.

Set of two cellular lots having no same genetic patrimony. The plants with green and white leaves are chimera plants.

Engineered proteins created from elements of different genes. Chimeras can have subtle changes in their genetic or protein sequences, or may contain inserted pieces of other genes, so that the protein formed has elements of different genes. Fusion proteins, such as reporter proteins used in two-hybrid systems, are sometimes entire proteins, or whole elements of two proteins that are bound together. Chimeric proteins are useful in studying the function of single amino acids, protein domains, and enzyme active sites. See also Two-hybrid Systems.

a creature or organism blended from two different, separate genetic structures

a fossil that is composed of more than one species

a group of cells, some cells within the group are mutated, and some are not

a hybrid biological organism made up of genetically different tissues

a mix of parts from different critters - Mar

a mixture of two or more distinct populations of cells in one body

a mixture of two or more species in one body

a molecule composed of different parts

an individual that results from the fusing of two cell lines, from two zygotes, during development

an individual who is genetically two people

an organism composed of chromosomes from two different organisms

an organism which exhibits chimerism

a person composed of TWO different types of cells

a plant, due to its genetic make-up, which can be propagated only by suckers to produce an identical (in foliage and blossom) plant

A protein or an organism that consists of genetic material from two or more different species.

In experimental embryology, the individual produced by grafting an embryonic part of one animal on to the embryo of another, either of the same or of another species. (SMD)

an organism in which some of the cells (but not all) contain the inserted DNA

an individual composed of a mixture of genetically different cells. (difference from mosaic: different cells in a mosaic are derived from the same zygote, where for chimera, they are not.)

A plant with several tissue sectors or layers differing in genetic or chromosomal constitution from the original plant.

two or more distinct tissues growing togther in one plant, resulting from a mutation in some but not all layers of the plant's tissue. Usually expressing itself in the form of random or irregular variegation, but also responsible for 'curly' or 'tortulose' branches and other effects. Chimera often tend to revert to regular (or other forms) depending upon where a given shoot might arise. The most stable forms tend to be those with a more regular expression of the chimera (a white edged leaf rather than a random or 'marbled' variegation) because the mutation exists in all of the tissue of a given layer (different layers of tissue are responsible for specific parts of all plants).

organism that contains cells or tissues with different genotypes

An organism that contains cells or tissues with a different genotype. These can be mutated cells of the host organism or cells from a different organism or species.

An animal or person whose body contains living tissue or cells from two genetically distinct individuals. Chimeras can contain tissue from the same species or two different species, but the combination of tissues is not the result of breeding and there is no genetic mixing (all cells maintain their original DNA).

(chimaera in UK English) An organism, usually a plant, with a genotype containing genes from two different species.

An individual mouse, or other mammal, that is derived from the fusion of two or more preimplantation embryos or an embryo and ES cells.

an organism containing two or more genetically distinct cell or tissue types.

An organism composed of cells derived from at least two genetically different individuals.

An individual composed of two populations of cells with different genotypes.

In zoology, a chimera is an animal which has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes; if the different cells emerged from the same zygote, it is called a mosaicism. It is either acquired through the infusion of allogeneic hematopoietic cells during transplantation or transfusion or it is inherited. In fraternal twins, chimerism occurs by means of blood-vessel anastomoses.

A Chimera (or chimeric protein) is a human-engineered or in vivo mutated protein that is encoded by a nucleotide sequence made by a splicing together of two or more complete or partial genes or c DNA. The pieces used may be from different species. One example is the Philadelphia chromosome mutation which leads to Chronic myelogenous leukemia in humans.

Chimeras (or "chimaeras") in botany are usually single organisms composed of two genetically different types of tissue. They occur in plants, on the same general basis as with animal chimeras. However, unlike animal chimeras, both types of tissues may have originated from the same zygote, and the difference is often due to mutation during ordinary cell division.

Referred as a most inhumane form of Alchemy by some, a Chimera is the fusion of two or more different species into a single being. One of Basque Grand's dark projects involve creating "beast-man" chimeras for militant purposes, with help from Shou Tucker (who grew to despise this work, especially when it affected his personal life and drove him mad) and other Alchemists (some of whom regret it). The Elrics encountered both types of Chimera, though only the 'Beast-Men' types have more impact in the story.

A chimera virus is defined by the United States Department of Agriculture Center for Veterinary Biologics as a "new hybrid microorganism created by joining nucleic acid fragments from two or more different microorganisms in which each of at least two of the fragments contain essential genes necessary for replication."http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/cvb/notices/2005/23.pdf The term chimera already referred to an individual organism whose body contained cell populations from different zygotes or an organism that developed from portions of different embryos.