org.concord.biologica.engine
Class ChromosomeSpecification

java.lang.Object
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public final class ChromosomeSpecification

extends java.lang.Object

This class represents the specification of a particular chromosome for use in creating an organism. In other words, this class represents a "blueprint" for a single chromosome of an organism.

During meiosis and fertilization the genotype of the child organism is created. That genotype consists of an exact specification for what alleles should be on what chromosomes of the resulting child organism. This class is a portion of that exact specification, the portion for a single chromosome.

Instances of this class are best considered immutable, transient and with very short lifetimes. Hence there is no way to save instances of this class to a file, no notification of property changes, no methods to change instance variables, etc.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1.1.1 $ $Date: 2001/04/28 00:39:11 $

Author:

$Author: ed $

Constructor Summary

ChromosomeSpecification(Species aSpecies, SpeciesChromosome aSpeciesChromosome, java.util.Vector someSpeciesAlleles)
Create a new chromosome specification.

Method Summary

java.util.Enumeration	getSpeciesAlleles() Returns an enumeration over the species alleles for this specification
SpeciesChromosome	getSpeciesChromosome() Returns the species chromosome for this specification.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ChromosomeSpecification

public ChromosomeSpecification(Species aSpecies,
                               SpeciesChromosome aSpeciesChromosome,
                               java.util.Vector someSpeciesAlleles)

Create a new chromosome specification.

Parameters:

aSpecies - Species - the species containing this chromosome, may not be null

aSpeciesChromosome - SpeciesChromosome - the species chromosome for this specification

someSpeciesAlleles - Vector - a vector of species alleles

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - - input argument(s) illegal

Method Detail

getSpeciesChromosome

public SpeciesChromosome getSpeciesChromosome()

Returns the species chromosome for this specification.

Returns:

SpeciesChromosome - this specification's species chromosome

getSpeciesAlleles

public java.util.Enumeration getSpeciesAlleles()

Returns an enumeration over the species alleles for this specification

Returns:

Enumeration over the species alleles in this specification