pachytene

pachytene
The stage of prophase in meiosis in which pairing of homologous chromosomes is complete and the paired homologues may twine about each other as they continue to shorten; longitudinal cleavage occurs in each chromosome to form two sister chromatids so that each homologous chromosome pair becomes a set of four intertwined chromatids. SYN: pachynema. [pachy- + G. tainia, band, tape]

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pachy·tene 'pak-i-.tēn n the stage of meiotic prophase which immediately follows the zygotene and in which the paired chromosomes are thickened and visibly divided into chromatids
pachytene adj

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n.
the third stage of the first prophase of meiosis, in which crossing over begins.

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pachy·tene (pakґe-tēn) [Gr. pachytēs thickness] the third stage of prophase in meiosis I, during which synapsis is complete, forming pairs of homologous chromosomes known as bivalents, and genetic material may be exhanged by crossing over.

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