LEPTOTENE


Meaning of LEPTOTENE in English

/lep"teuh teen'/ , n. Cell Biol.

a stage of cell division during the prophase of meiosis, in which the chromosomes are not distinct but appear as a mass of entangled threads.

[ leptotène (1900); see LEPTO-, -TENE ]

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