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Septuagenarian
Someone in his or her seventies. See also: Age by decade
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- Synapsis The side-by-side and point-by-point pairing of homologous chromosomes during meiosis
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- WHS Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
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- Epigenetic Something that affects a cell, organ or individual without directly affecting its DNA. An epigenetic change…
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