telocentric

telocentric
/tel'euh sen"trik/, adj. Genetics.
of or pertaining to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is positioned at its end, creating one chromosome arm. Cf. acentric (def. 2), acrocentric, metacentric (def. 2).
[1940-45; TELO-2 + -CENTRIC]

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