English Explanatory Dictionary

zygotene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The intimate pairing of homologous chromosomes during the synaptic stage of meiosis

Word forms

zygotene zygotenes

Etymology

From French zygotène, corresponding to zygo- (“union, zygosis”, from Ancient Greek ζυγόν (zugón, “junction, yoke”)) + -tene (“filament”, from ταινία (tainía, “band, fillet”)), equivalent to zygote + -tene. Coined by Victor Grégoire in 1907 and in English by Edmund B. Wilson in 1912.

Synonyms

zygonema

Related words

heterozygosis zygose zygosis zygosity zygosphere zygospore zygotenic zygotic zygotically -zygous
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