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Chromatid

Definition

noun, plural: chromatids

Either of the two strands joined together by a single centromere, formed from the duplication of the chromosome during the early stages of cell division and then separate to become individual chromosome during the late stages of cell division.


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The term chromatid was proposed by Clarence Erwin McClung (1900) for each of the four threads making up a chromosome-pair during meiosis. It was later used also for mitosis.

Chromatids may be sister or non-sister chromatids.

When chromatids separate and move toward opposite poles of the cell, they are now referred to as daughter chromosomes.


Word origin: Greek khrōma, khrōmat-, color.

Related terms: sister chromatid, non-sister chromatid.

Compare: homologous chromosome.
See also: centromere, meiosis, mitosis.


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