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Having the centromere located near one end of the chromosome so that one chromosomal arm is long and the other is short.

ac′ro·cen′tric n.


(Genetics) (of a chromosome) having the centromere at one end
(Genetics) an acrocentric chromosome


(ˌæk rəˈsɛn trɪk)

(of a chromosome) having the centromere closer to one end than the other, resulting in two arms of unequal length.
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Adj.1.acrocentric - having a subterminal centromereacrocentric - having a subterminal centromere; "an acrocentric chromosome"
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2] ([female]) sex-chromosome determining mechanism, a second centric fusion took place between the neo-Y and an acrocentric autosome Bl (of the B1B2 autosomic pair from the standard karyotype) of a B1B2 autosome pair; this occurred in such a way that the Y turned metacentric, while the unfused B2 autosome behaved as an acrocentric [X.
Number of acrocentric chromosomes: one or two acrocentrics (0), 15 acrocentrics (1), 22 of 24 acrocentrics (2), 26 or 27 acrocentrics (3), 28 acrocentrics (4), 30 or 32 acrocentrics (5), 36 acrocentrics (6).
canadensis karyotypes share a fundamental number (FN=80), but differ by 8 acrocentric pairs present in the C.
In the 20-wk-old callus cells, nearly 10% of the diploid and tetraploid cells counted had structural changes with acrocentric, telocentric and/ or dicentric chromosomes (unpublished data).
The standard karyotype of a male Tonatia evotis consisting of 30 biarmed and two acrocentric autosomes is illustrated here for the first time (Fig.
Karyotype analysis revealed a well-defined pattern of a large number of small chromosomes, mostly acrocentric, in the 4 Dinoponera species analyzed.
1) consists of 2 large pairs of metacentric/submetacentric (pairs 1 and 2), 1 pair of subtelocentric (pair 5) and 5 pairs of acrocentric autosomes (pairs 3, 4 and 6 to 9).
The karyotype of our specimens comprises 1 metacentric (M) pair, 5 submetacentric (SM) pairs and 18 acrocentric (A) pairs, with an arm number of NF=o0.
The fundamental number found (number of chromosome arms: two for sub-metacentrics and one for subtelocentric and acrocentric chromosomes) was 56.
The chromosome becomes either telocentric or acrocentric.