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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.
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- noun genetics The coiled central
filament of achromatid upon which thechromomeres lie
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[chromo(some) + Greek nēma, thread; see (s)nē- in Indo-European roots.]
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