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despiralization en · NOUN

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  1. (countable, uncountable) The uncoiling of chromonema as part of meiosis.
    • When incorporated into DNA, the cytocine cannot be methylated and causes almost complete demethylation of genomic DNA, expressing a despiralization of the condensed chromatin of metaphase chromosomes. 2012, Tatiana Tatarinova, DNA Methylation: From Genomics to Technology, page 158:

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