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Calico cat, the Glossary

A calico cat (US English) is a domestic cat of any breed with a tri-color coat.^[1]

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Acromelanism

Acromelanism or point coloration is a genetically determined, temperature-dependent pigmentation pattern, with full expression only occurring on legs, ears, tail, face and scrotum (in males).

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Allele

An allele, or allelomorph, is a variant of the sequence of nucleotides at a particular location, or locus, on a DNA molecule.

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American English

American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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American Shorthair

The American Shorthair (ASH) is a breed of domestic cat believed to be descended from European cats brought to North America by early settlers to protect valuable cargo from mice and rats.

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Arabian Mau

The Arabian Mau is a formal breed of domestic cat, originated from the early African wildcat, a short-haired landrace native to the Arabian Peninsula.

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Baltimore checkerspot

The Baltimore checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton) is a North American butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. Calico cat and Baltimore checkerspot are Symbols of Maryland.

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Baltimore oriole

The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird.

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Barr body

A Barr body (named after discoverer Murray Barr) or X-chromatin is an inactive X chromosome.

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A bicolor cat (also bicolour cat, or a more specific term such as black-and-white cat) is a cat with white fur combined with fur of some other color, for example solid black, tabby, or colorpointed. Calico cat and bicolor cat are cat coat types.

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Brindle

Brindle is a coat coloring pattern in animals, particularly dogs, cattle, guinea pigs, cats, and, rarely, horses.

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British Shorthair

The British Shorthair is the pedigreed version of the traditional British domestic cat, with a distinctively stocky body, thick coat, and broad face.

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Calico

Calico (in British usage since 1505) is a heavy plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Cat

The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.

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Cat coat genetics

Cat coat genetics determine the coloration, pattern, length, and texture of feline fur.

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Chimera (genetics)

A genetic chimerism or chimera is a single organism composed of cells with more than one distinct genotype.

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Cloning

Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, either by natural or artificial means.

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Congenital sensorineural deafness in cats

Congenital sensorineural deafness occurs commonly in domestic cats with a white coat.

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Epistasis

Epistasis is a phenomenon in genetics in which the effect of a gene mutation is dependent on the presence or absence of mutations in one or more other genes, respectively termed modifier genes.

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Eugene Field

Eugene Field Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.

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Exotic Shorthair

The Exotic Shorthair is a breed of cat developed as a short-haired version of the Persian.

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Female

An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.

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Gamete

A gamete (ultimately) is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization in organisms that reproduce sexually.

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Japanese Bobtail

The Japanese Bobtail is a breed of domestic cat with an unusual bobtail more closely resembling the tail of a rabbit than that of other cats.

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Klinefelter syndrome

Klinefelter syndrome (KS), also known as 47,XXY, is a chromosome anomaly where a male has an extra X chromosome.

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Kozhikode

Kozhikode, also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India.

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Locus (genetics)

In genetics, a locus (loci) is a specific, fixed position on a chromosome where a particular gene or genetic marker is located.

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Luck

Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones.

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Maine Coon

The Maine Coon is a large domesticated cat breed.

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Maltese cat

A Maltese cat is any whose fur is completely or primarily gray (often called "blue" by cat fanciers) and regardless of breed. Calico cat and Maltese cat are cat coat types.

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Maneki-neko

The maneki-neko (招き猫) is a common Japanese figurine which is often believed to bring good luck to the owner.

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Manx cat

The Manx cat (in earlier times often spelled Manks) is a breed of domestic cat (Felis catus) originating on the Isle of Man, with a mutation that shortens the tail.

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Mary F. Lyon

Mary Frances Lyon (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon.

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Murray Barr

Murray Llewellyn Barr (June 20, 1908 – May 4, 1995) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher who discovered with graduate student Ewart George Bertram, in 1948, an important cell structure, the "Barr body".

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Mutation

In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA.

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Norwegian Forest cat

The Norwegian Forest cat (Norsk skogkatt and Norsk skaukatt) is a breed of domestic cat originating in Northern Europe.

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Persian cat

The Persian cat, also known as the Persian Longhair, is a long-haired breed of cat characterised by a round face and short muzzle.

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Placentalia

Placental mammals (infraclass Placentalia) are one of the three extant subdivisions of the class Mammalia, the other two being Monotremata and Marsupialia.

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Poultry

Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers.

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Ship's cat

The ship's cat has been a common feature on many trading, exploration, and naval ships dating to ancient times.

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Siberian cat

The Siberian is a centuries-old landrace (natural variety) of domestic cat in Russia, and recently developed as a formal breed with standards promulgated the world over since the late-1980s.

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Sterility (physiology)

Sterility is the physiological inability to effect sexual reproduction in a living thing, members of whose kind have been produced sexually.

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Susumu Ohno

was a Japanese-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and seminal researcher in the field of molecular evolution.

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Tabby cat

A tabby cat, or simply tabby, is any domestic cat (Felis catus) with a distinctive M-shaped marking on its forehead, stripes by its eyes and across its cheeks, along its back, around its legs and tail, and characteristic striped, dotted, lined, flecked, banded, or swirled patterns on the body: neck, shoulders, sides, flanks, chest, and abdomen. Calico cat and tabby cat are cat coat types.

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The Duel (poem)

"The Duel" is a poem by American humorist and children's writer Eugene Field.

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Tortoiseshell

Tortoiseshell or tortoise shell is a material produced from the shells of the larger species of tortoise and turtle, mainly the hawksbill sea turtle, which is a critically endangered species according to the IUCN Red List largely because of its exploitation for this trade.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_cat

Also known as Calico Cat History, Calico cats, Calicoes, Mike neko, Tortoiseshell and white, Tricolor cat.

, X-inactivation.

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