acrocentric chromosome

Definitions of acrocentric chromosome
  1. noun
    a chromosome with the centromere near one end so that one chromosomal arm is short and one is long
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    chromosome
    a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order
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