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Acentric fragment

Acentric fragment --> acentric Chromosome

a fragment of a chromosome lacking a centromere and unable to attach to the mitotic spindle, therefore unable to take part in the division of a nucleus and randomly distributed in daughter cells.

Synonym: acentric fragment.


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Karyotyping and Probing

... Since a Robertsonian translocation is a dicentric fusion and the acentric parts fragment will be lost, you should be able to detect a Robertsonian translocation using probes ...

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by sdekivit
Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:02 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Karyotyping and Probing
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