Dyad (biology)

Dyad (biology)

A dyad is a pair of sister chromatids. This occurs in prophase I of meiosis. After DNA replication, the two sister chromatids align side-by-side and appear to have an undivided centromere, in contrast to mitosis, in which each chromatid appears to have its own separate centromere.


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