Acrocentric

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.

    "This may be the result of misalignment, nonallelic gene conversion or other biological mechanisms that maintain large-scale homology between the short arms of the acrocentrics—a phenomenon that we have studied in an associated paper²²."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having a subterminal centromere wordnet

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"This may be the result of misalignment, nonallelic gene conversion or other biological mechanisms that maintain large-scale homology between the short arms of the acrocentrics—a phenomenon that we have studied in an associated paper²²."

Etymology

From acro- + -centric.

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