Zygotene

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Noun
  1. 1
    The intimate pairing of homologous chromosomes during the synaptic stage of meiosis
  2. 2
    the second stage of the prophase of meiosis wordnet

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zygonema

Etymology

From French zygotène, corresponding to zygo- (“union, zygosis”, from Ancient Greek ζυγόν (zugón, “junction, yoke”)) + -tene (“filament”, from ταινία (tainía, “band, fillet”)), equivalent to zygote + -tene. Coined by Victor Grégoire in 1907 and in English by Edmund B. Wilson in 1912.

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