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Keywords: Meiosis, Homologs, Prophase, Bivalent, Paternal

Related Terms: Mitosis, Anaphase, Centromere, Chromatid, Diploid, Disjunction, Haploid, Tetrad, Monosomy, Autosomal, Nondisjunction, Crossing Over, Tetraploid, Metaphase, Autopolyploid, Allopolyploid, Bivalent, Homologous Chromosome, Ploidy, Polyploid, Crossing-Over, Karyotype, Kinetochore, Monosomic, Telophase, Polyploidy, Autosome, Trisomy, Prophase, Sister Chromatid Exchange, Mitotic Spindle, Aneuploidy, Polytene Chromosome, Homologous Chromosomes, Acrocentric Chromosome, Chiasmata, Robertsonian Translocation, Sister Chromatids, Homologues, Uniparental Disomy, Autosomes, Y-Chromosome, Synaptonemal Complex, Reciprocal Translocation, Non-Disjunction, Chromosomal Translocation, Reduction Division, Triploidy, Disomy, Chromatids

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The pairing of homologous chromosomes or of homologous chromosomal regions.

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the pairing of maternal and paternal like chromosomes during zygotene substage of Prophase I in meiosis.

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the pairing of replicated chromosomes during prophase I of meiosis

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G. " ; the junction of two homologous chromosomes during meiosis, to form bivalents.

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the pairing of homologous chromosomes during prophase I of meiosis

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(sin ap´ sis) • The highly specific parallel alignment (pairing) of homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis.

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the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis

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The alignment of chromosomes during meiosis I so that each chromosome is beside its homologue.

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The close pairing of homologous chromosomes in meiotic prophase which enables crossovers to occur.

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Close pairing of homologs at meiosis.

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Synapsis is the currently unexplained phenomenon of two homologous chromosomes coming together and lining up side-by-side resulting in a bivalent (also known as a tetrad), or two homologous chromosomes that stay in close association during the first two phases of meiosis I (the stages being Prophase I and Metaphase I).

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