pachytene

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Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9

Definition of pachytene

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The third stage of prophase 1 of meiosis, during which the chromosomes shorten and divide into four chromatids.

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Etymology

From French pachytène, equivalent to pachy- (“thick”) + -tene (“ribbon”). Coined by Hans von De Winiwarter in 1900 and in English by Edmund B. Wilson in 1912.

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72 words

3-letter words

64 words

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