acrocentric

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
形容词 adj.
  1. (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.

词形变化

more acrocentric comparative most acrocentric superlative acrocentrics plural

词源

词源 1
From acro- + -centric.
词源 2
From acro- + -centric.
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