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zygotene

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
zy-gotene
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The intimate pairing of homologous chromosomes during the synaptic stage of meiosis

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

zygotenes (plural)

Phrases

-zygous

Frequently Paired Words

heterozygosis zygose zygosis zygosity zygosphere zygospore zygotenic zygotic

Synonyms

zygonema

Questions

What does zygotene mean?
The intimate pairing of homologous chromosomes during the synaptic stage of meiosis
Where does zygotene come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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