Definition of "chromatid" [chromatid]

• Either of the two daughter strands of a replicated chromosome that are joined by a single centromere and separate during cell division to become individual chromosomes. (noun)

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• "Some cellular mutations occuring in transformed cells may even be virus-induced, because in the early stages of transformation by papova viruses cells of primary cultures have frequent chromatid breaks (39)."
• "The terminalizing chromatid strands cannot pass through the nucleolus."
• "Therefore, these stocks were used to test if a presumed silent Dt element could be activated by the chromatid type of breakage-fusion-bridge cycle."