How To Use acentric chromosome In A Sentence
- A V-shaped metacentric chromosome has two arms: 10 metacentric chromosomes would have a total of 20 arms. Trout and Salmon of North America
- However, not all acentric chromosomes and dicentric chromosomes/centric rings were converted to MNi and NPB respectively, depending on the dose of radiation.
- Further, the products of crossovers between inverted repeats may lead to dicentric and acentric chromosomes that often cannot be transmitted to the next generation.
- Micronuclei are acentric chromosome fragments or whole chromosomes that are left behind during mitotic cellular division and appear in the cytoplasm of interphasic cells as small additional nuclei.
- Also excluded are exchanges that would generate dicentric or acentric chromosomes, such as exchanges that may occur between rDNA subunits lying in opposite orientation.
- In metaphase, chromatid fragments are attached to the homologous area of the sister chromatid while acentric chromosome fragments are apart from their chromosome of origin.
- Micronuclei may originate from an acentric chromosome fragment or whole chromosomes lost from the metaphase plate and provide therefore a measure of both chromosome breakage and chromosome loss.
- Note that almost all metacentric and submetacentric chromosomes have split at the centromere into two daughter units.
- Six structurally acentric chromosomes were generated from the irradiation of Dp 238, supporting the findings of a previous study.
- This classification method uses anti-kinetochore antibody staining to identify the presence of kinetochore protein associated with the centromeres of chromosomes or its absence from acentric chromosome fragments.
