zygotene
Meaning
Noun
- The intimate pairing of homologous chromosomes during the synaptic stage of meiosis
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Origin
- From French zygotène, corresponding to zyg- 'union, zygosis' (from Ancient Greek ζυγόν) + -tene 'filament' (from ταινία)
- Coined by Victor Grégoire in 1907 and in English by Edmund B. Wilson in 1912.
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