uninemeadj.
/ˈjuːnɪniːm/ Cytology.
Of a chromatid: having (as usual) just one duplex of DNA.
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uninemic1970
1963 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 49 794 Autoradiographic experiments..have yielded results conformable to a polyneme rather than a unineme structure of the chromosome.
1972 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 181 21 Most cytologists refused (and some still refuse) to accept the simplest and most direct deduction from Taylor's classical labelling experiment, namely that a chromatid, prior to replication, is unineme.
1981 Chromosoma LXXXII. 1 The unineme concept is supported by genetical data.
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uniˈnemic adj. in the same sense.
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uninemic1970
1970 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quantitative Biol. XXXV. 533/1 The current usage of the hybrid word uninemic is, etymologically, quite incorrect.
1980 Citologija XXII. 83 Chromosomes are uninemic, i.e. each chromonema consists of a single DNA molecule (or a single chain of linked DNA molecules) whose ends are located in telomeres.
ˈuninemy n. the state of having one duplex of DNA per chromatid.
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1972 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 181 26 Another line of evidence for ‘uninemy’..was provided a few years ago by Miller.
1981 Chromosome LXXXII. 1 (heading) Evidence for the uninemy of eukaryotic chromatids.
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