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nonacrocentric

nonacrocentric adjective: having the centromere near the middle, and thus having roughly equal-sized arms.

Adjective

nonacrocentric (comparative more nonacrocentric, superlative most nonacrocentric)

  1. Having the centromere near the middle, and thus having roughly equal-sized arms.
    • The derivative that is lacking is formed by the complete acrocentric short arm and the proximal long arm segment and perhaps a terminal segment from the nonacrocentric chromosome.1988, Art Daniel, The Cytogenetics of Mammalian Autosomal Rearrangements, page 56
    • In other words, acrocentric-derived sSMC tend to be transmitted more easily from one generation to the next than nonacrocentric ones; the first can apparently survive male and female meiosis more easily, whereas nonacrocentric ones seem to face more problems there.2011, Thomas Liehr, Small Supernumerary Marker Chromosomes (sSMC), page 17

Forms of nonacrocentric

comparativemore nonacrocentric
superlativemost nonacrocentric

Origin of nonacrocentric

From non- + acrocentric.

Questions about nonacrocentric

What does nonacrocentric mean?
Nonacrocentric means having the centromere near the middle, and thus having roughly equal-sized arms.
What part of speech is nonacrocentric?
Nonacrocentric is an adjective.

Words near nonacrocentric in the dictionary

  1. nonacquittal
  2. nonacral
  3. nonacrid
  4. nonacrimonious
  5. nonacrobatic
  6. nonacrocentric
  7. nonacronymous
  8. nonacrophobic
  9. nonacrophonic
  10. nonacrosomal
  11. nonacrostic

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