chromatid
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chromatid


Term: chromatid
Origin: Anc Greek

?????*/chroma(=color)<???????? <????/hir(=hand) <??????/hripto(=touch or  anoint)
-????/idio(=-id, suffix that is used as diminutive of a noun )
  
Coined:
The term introduced in 1900 by McClung (1779 ? 1848) who proposed the term ?chromatid? for each of the four threads making up a chromosome-pair at meiosis.
Definition:
The individual and identical daughter-chromosomes (strand) into which each chromosome is divided in all nuclear divisions.




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