acrocentric
of or relating to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is closer to one end than to the other, creating two unequal chromosome arms.: Compare acentric (def. 2), metacentric (def. 2), telocentric.
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How to use acrocentric in a sentence
We found that every acrocentric chromosome, and every rDNA on that acrocentric chromosome, had variants, changes to the repeat unit that was private to that particular chromosome.
These “acrocentric chromosomes” don’t resemble nice, neat X’s the way the rest of the chromosomes do.
British Dictionary definitions for acrocentric
/ (ˌækrəʊˈsɛntrɪk) /
(of a chromosome) having the centromere at one end
an acrocentric chromosome
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