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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the centromere in a terminal position. Used of a chromosome.
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- adjective genetics, of a chromosome having the
centromere at one end
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- adjective having the form of a straight rod because the centromere is in a terminal position
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All 40 chromosomes of mouse oocytes are telocentric, so homologs form bivalents in meiosis I while sister chromatids form univalents in meiosis II
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All 40 chromosomes of mouse oocytes are telocentric, so homologs form bivalents in meiosis I while sister chromatids form univalents in meiosis II
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