Acrocentric
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Acrocentric is an adjective meaning (genetics) (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.
Meaning
(genetics) (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.
More Meanings
- A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- acrocentrics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include autosomes, akrocentric, metacentric, telocentric, telocentromeric, centrophilic.
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