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Chromatid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Either of the two daughter strands of a replicated chromosome that are joined by a single centromere and separate during cell division to become individual chromosomes.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Either of the two strands of a chromosome that separate during mitosis.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis

Word Usage

"Some cellular mutations occuring in transformed cells may even be virus-induced, because in the early stages of transformation by papova viruses cells of primary cultures have frequent chromatid breaks (39)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

strand fibril filament