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chiasma
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chiasma (kīăz`mə): see crossing over crossing over, process in genetics by which the two chromosomes of a homologous pair exchange equal segments with each other. Crossing over occurs in the first division of meiosis. At that stage each chromosome has replicated into two strands called sister chromatids.
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chiasma [kī′az·mə]
(anatomy)
A cross-shaped point of intersection of two parts, especially of the optic nerves.
(cell and molecular biology)
The point of junction and fusion between paired chromatids or chromosomes, first seen during diplotene of meiosis.


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But that situation can help explain both the increasing turn toward genres of fantasy in contemporary film and the importance of such texts for helping us to navigate this confusing postmodern cultural landscape wherein reality and fantasy increasingly seem bound in a chiasmic relationship.
The very description of the extralinguistic body", she notes, "allegorises the problem of the chiasmic relation between language and body and so fails to supply the distinction it seeks to articulate" (2001: 257).
To this poem, readers generally responded by feeling the emotions and perceiving the gaps in the form but only rarely seeing its chiasmic structure.
 
 
 
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