acrocentric

comparative more acrocentric · superlative most acrocentric

1. biology(of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.

plural acrocentrics

1. A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.

   This may be the result of misalignment, nonallelic gene conversion or other biological mechanisms that maintain large-scale homology between the short arms of the acrocentrics—a phenomenon that we have studied in an associated paper²².

   2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313