Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a pericenter; pericentral.
- In geology, deposited around a center, as lava-flows or tuffs around a crater.
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- adjective
pericentral - adjective astronomy Of or pertaining to a
pericentre - adjective genetics Of or pertaining to the
centromere of achromosome
Etymologies
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Examples
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… Humans and chimps differ not only in chromosome number, but also by nine pericentric chromosomal inversions and one centric fusion.
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(34 M/SM + 6 ST/A) and we concluded that the differences between the two cryptic species are due to pericentric inversions and one tandem fusion.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Cleusa Nagamachi 2010
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(34 M/SM + 6 ST/A) and we concluded that the differences between the two cryptic species are due to pericentric inversions and one tandem fusion.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Cleusa Nagamachi 2010
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Position-effect variegation (PEV) is the stochastic transcriptional silencing of a gene positioned adjacent to heterochromatin. white-mottled X-chromosomal inversions in Drosophila are classic PEV models that show variegation of the eye color gene white due to its relocation next to pericentric heterochromatin.
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