Meanings
adverbintrachromosomally (not comparable)
- not comparableWithin a chromosome.
Recombination as well as gene density increases with relative distance from the centromere, and intrachromosomally duplicated genes are found more frequently at the distal regions of the chromosome.
2015 September 9, Natasha M. Glover et al., “Small-scale gene duplications played a major role in the recent evolution of wheat chromosome 3B”, in Genome Biology, volume 16, →DOI
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Origin
From intrachromosomal + -ly or intra- + chromosome + -ally.
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