(of a chromosome or chromosome fragment) lacking a centromere
noun
4.
an acentric chromosome or fragment
Examples of 'acentric' in a sentence
acentric
The frequency of chromosomal abnormalities was breaks, gaps, marker, and acentric, respectively.
Abolfazl Movafagh, Ali Haeri, Ali Asghar Kolahi, Hossein Hassani-Moghadam 2012, 'Cytogenetic risks and possible adverse health effects by narcotic substances dependent',International Journal of Preventive Medicinehttp://www.ijpvmjournal.net/article.asp?issn=2008-7802;year=2012;volume=3;issue=9;spage=607;epage=611;aulast=Movafagh. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The kind of aberrations detected were acentric fragments, dicentric chromosomes, rings, gaps and breaks.
Patricia Cuenca, Vanessa Ramírez 2004, 'Aberraciones cromosómicas en trabajadoras expuestas a plaguicidas', Revista de Biología Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442004000300024. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In humans, neocentromeres often arise in cells with gross chromosome rearrangements that rescue an acentric chromosome.
Carrie Ketel, Helen S W Wang, Mark McClellan, Kelly Bouchonville, Anna Selmecki, TamarLahav, Maryam Gerami-Nejad, Judith Berman 2009, 'Neocentromeres form efficiently at multiple possible loci in Candida albicans.', PLoS Geneticshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2642679?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The refinement in the acentric space group, however, gave significantly better results and these are used in this paper.
Andreas Schäfer, Christopher Golz, Hans Preut, Carsten Strohmann, Martin Hiersemann 2015, 'Crystal structure of rac-(3aR,4S,5aR,6S,9R,10aS,10bR)-3a,5a,9-trimethyltetradecahydro-6,9-epoxycyclohepta[e]inden-4-olmonohydrate', Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communicationshttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S2056989015015698. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Spectrum of chromosome aberrations, which mostly included acentric fragments, expanded due to induced bridges, ring chromosomes and micronuclei.
R.A. Yakymchuk, V.F. Valyuk 2018, 'Soil mutagenic activity in hazardous waste site of Kalush City (Western Ukraine)',Ukrainian Journal of Ecologyhttp://ojs.mdpu.org.ua/index.php/biol/article/view/2364. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)