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chromatid
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chromatid /chro·ma·tid/ (kro´mah-tid) either of two parallel, spiral filaments joined at the centromere which make up a chromosome.
chro·ma·tid (krm-td)
n.
Either of the two daughter strands of a duplicated chromosome that are joined by a single centromere and separate during cell division to become individual chromosomes.
chromatid
[krō′mətid]
Etymology: Gk, chroma, color
one of the two identical, threadlike filaments of a chromosome. Chromatids are produced by the self-replication of the chromosome during interphase and are held together by a common centromere. During anaphase of mitosis and meiosis II, the chromatids separate to become daughter chromosomes.
chromatid
either of two parallel filaments joined at the centromere which make up a chromosome, and which divide in cell division, each going to a different pole of the dividing cell and each becoming a chromosome of one of the two daughter cells.
sister chromatid
a chromatid formed by a replicating chromosome during interphase; because they are derived from the one homolog and joined at the center they are exact copies of each other.


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Through a process of 'crossing over', the segments of non-sister chromatids of a homologous pair of homologous dyads are exchanged.
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