salivary-gland chromosome
salivary-gland chromosome Polytene, chromosome found in the interphase nuclei of the salivary-gland cells in larvae of Diptera. These chromosomes undergo complete somatic pairing to form units of identical chromosomes joined along their length (in parallel) to one another.
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