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- noun The
stage duringmeiosis Prophase 1 where thechromosomes condense after S-phase andinterphase , resulting in therecombination ofhaploid chromosome pairs with sister chromatids held by a single non-dividingcentromeres , and followed by thezygotene stage.
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