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comparative more acrocentric, superlative most acrocentric
(genetics) (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm. examples
plural acrocentrics
A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm. quotations examples
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 LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, page 313