genus Bos

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Related to genus Bos: Bos banteng, Bos primigenius taurus

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genus Bos - wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini

Bos

mammal genus - a genus of mammals

Bovidae, family Bovidae - true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats

bovine - any of various members of the genus Bos

wild ox, ox - any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos

Bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine, oxen - domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"

ox - an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus

Bos indicus, Brahma, Brahman, Brahmin - any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding

zebu - domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap; used chiefly as a draft animal in India and east Asia

Bos primigenius, urus, aurochs - large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle

Bos grunniens, yak - large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated

banteng, Bos banteng, tsine, banting - wild ox of the Malay Archipelago

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Complete mitochondrial genome of the a rare subspecies of genus Bos, Tianzhu white yak from Tibetan area in China.

Diversity Analysis of Chinese Tibetan Naqu Yak (Bos grunniens) Populations Using mtDNA

The gayal belongs to the family Bovidae, tribe Bovini, group Bovina, genus Bos and species Bos frontalis.

Semi-domesticated and irreplaceable genetic resource gayal (Bos frontalis) Needs Effective Genetic Conservation in Bangladesh: a review

As the materials in the study served the drugs of metaphase chromosomes derived from different species of animals in the genus Bos Taurus, Bos grinniens, Ovis aries, Equus caballus, bred in the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The character of diploid variation chromosome set of animal species Bos Taurus, Bos Grinniens, Ovis Aries and Equus Caballus

Bovine animals of the genus Bos are better known as what?

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The word "cattle" simply means members of the genus Bos, having 60 chromosomes.

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To which I say a word that I'd get in trouble for using, but know that it has something to do with the genus Bos. Sure, those who think that they're going to be able to succeed by making massive numbers of undifferentiated whatevers are going to find themselves in the aforementioned handbasket.