Chiasma

Rarity: Uncommon

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In genetics, a chiasma (pl.: chiasmata) is the point of contact, the physical link, between two (non-sister) chromatids belonging to homologous chromosomes.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Chiasma (genetics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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