See Also: Dassault, Marcel(encyclopedia)
Dassault Aviation(finance)
Dassault SystŠmes(finance)
sex chromosome(medicine)
chromosome 19(medicine)
chromosome 20(medicine)
chromosome 21(medicine)
Chromosome 1(health)
chromosome 8(medicine)
chromosome 9(medicine)

Dassault, Marcel (sh) and chromosome (sh)


Dassault, Marcel (sh)




orig. Marcel Bloch

born Jan. 22, 1892, Paris, France
died April 18, 1986, Paris

French aircraft designer and industrialist.

He designed aircraft during World War I, and in 1930 he started his own company to build military and civilian airplanes. Sent to Buchenwald as a Jew during World War II, he later changed his last name (to that of his brother's byname in the Resistance) and resumed his business. His company produced Europe's first supersonic plane, the Mystere, and in 1956 began production of the Mirage warplane, which would be acquired by countries worldwide.


chromosome (sh)




Microscopic, threadlike part of a cell that carries hereditary information in the form of genes.

The structure and location of chromosomes differentiate prokaryotic cells from eukaryotic cells (see prokaryote, eukaryote). Every species has a characteristic number of chromosomes; humans have 23 pairs (22 pairs of autosomal, or nonsex, chromosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes). Human chromosomes consist primarily of DNA. During cell division (see meiosis, mitosis), chromosomes are distributed evenly among daughter cells. In sexually reproducing organisms, the number of chromosomes in somatic (nonsex) cells is diploid, while gametes or sex cells (egg and sperm) produced by meiosis are haploid (see ploidy). Fertilization restores the diploid set of chromosomes in the zygote.