telocentric chromosome

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Noun

telocentric chromosome - a chromosome like a straight rod with the centromere in terminal positionchromosome - a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; "humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes"

telocentric chromosome

tel·o·cen·tric chro·mo·some

a chromosome with a terminal centromere; such chromosomes in humans are unstable and arise by misdivision or breakage near the centromere and are usually eliminated within a few cell divisions.

telocentric chromosome

a chromosome in which the CENTROMERE is terminal (situated at one end), so that there is effectively only one arm.

telocentric chromosome

Related to telocentric chromosome: acrocentric, acrocentric chromosome, metacentric chromosome

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noun a chromosome like a straight rod with the centromere in terminal position

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chromosome

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