paracentric inversion

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paracentric inversion

[¦par·ə¦sen·trik in′vər·zhən]
(genetics)
A type of chromosomal alteration that occurs within one arm of a chromosome and does not span the centromere.
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soja revealed the presence of one or more paracentric inversions (Ahmad et al., 1977a, 1977b, 1979, 1983).
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