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acrocentrics

acrocentrics is the plural of acrocentric.

Meaning of acrocentric

Noun

acrocentric (plural acrocentrics)

  1. 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 paper²².2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313

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Questions about acrocentrics

What is acrocentrics the plural of?
Acrocentrics is the plural of acrocentric.

Words near acrocentrics in the dictionary

  1. acrocarp
  2. acrocarpous
  3. acrocarps
  4. acrocentric
  5. acrocentricity
  6. acrocentrics
  7. acrocephalia
  8. acrocephalic
  9. acrocephalics
  10. acrocephalid
  11. acrocephalid warbler

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