metacentric chromosome

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metacentric chromosome - a chromosome having two equal arms because the centromere is in median position

chromosome - a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; "humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes"

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