Locus (genetics) A locus (plural loci) in genetics is the position on a chromosome. Each chromosome carries many genes; humans' estimated 'haploid' protein coding genes are 19,000-20,000, on the 23 different chromosomes. A variant of the similar DNA sequence located at a given locus is called an allele.
Harassment (/hÉËrÃ¦smÉnt/ or /ËhÃ¦rÉsmÉnt/) covers a wide range of behaviours of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behaviour which disturbs or upsets, and it is characteristically repetitive. In the legal sense, it is behaviour which appears to be disturbing or threatening. Sexual harassment refers to persistent and unwanted sexual advances, typically in the workplace, where the consequences of refusing are potentially very disadvantageous to the victim.
Related Terms: Harassment, Hate Crime. Conduct or words that surpass the standard even of civil harassment under, for example, employment safety legislation and for which the state has described as being criminal in nature. The 2008 General Laws of Massachusetts defines criminal harassment at Chapter 265, Â§43A as follows: Whoever willfully and maliciously engages in a knowing pattern of conduct or series of acts over a period of time directed at a specific person, which seriously alarms that person and would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress, shall be guilty of the crime of criminal harassment....