acrocentric
adjEtymology
From acro- + -centric.
Definitions
(of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm,…
(of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.
A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a…
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.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for acrocentric. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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