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Acentric chromosome

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A fragment of a chromosome (one of the microscopically visible carriers of the genetic material DNA) that is lacking a centromere (the 'waist' of the chromosome essential for the division and the retention of the chromosome in the cell) and so is lost when the cell divides

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