Metacentric Chromosome At Biology Glossary

What is it? A chromosome having its centromere in the middle. See also acrocentric chromosome

Bio Definition Added By: Brody

Send To Friends!

If you'd like to send the Metacentric Chromosome definition to yourself or to your friends/colleagues, just enter the e-mail addresses in the boxes below -

We hope you now understand the meaning of Metacentric Chromosome. If you need any more information on this term, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Other Similar Biology Terms:

Bio Term dauermodification is The persistence for several generations of an environmentally induced trait.

Bio Term vessel cell is An empty tube formed from longitudinal fusion of several cells with strong walls reinforced with lignin, whose function is mass transport of water for transpiration.

Bio Term Tissue Culture is Growing plants or animal tissue from only a few cells obtained from the initial host.

Bio Term endotherm is See warm-blooded.

Bio Term conservative replication is A postulated mode of DNA replication in which an intact double helix acts as a template for a new double helix; known to be incorrect. A disproved model of DNA synthesis suggesting that one-half of the daughter DNA molecules should have both strands composed of newly polymerized nucleotides.