acrocentric chromosome

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   a chromosome with the centromere near one end so that one chromosomal arm is short and one is long

   Broaderchromosome

Questions about acrocentric chromosome

What does acrocentric chromosome mean?

acrocentric chromosome means "a chromosome with the centromere near one end so that one chromosomal arm is short and one is long".

Is acrocentric chromosome a common word?

acrocentric chromosome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.