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telocentric chromosome

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Noun1.telocentric chromosome - a chromosome like a straight rod with the centromere in terminal 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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lateralis karyotype has 19 telocentric chromosomes or 38 chromosome arms, suggests that M.
This reduction in chromosome number may be because of Robertsonian fusion, wherein telocentric chromosomes fused, reducing the total chromosome number (Wang & Guo 2004).
Parallel to the increase of chromosome number, in certain aquatic organisms often an enlargement of submetacentric and telocentric chromosomes is observed, probably by chromosomal fission (Thiriot-Quievreux 1994).
 
 
 
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