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8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis
originFrom Ancient Greek σῠ́νᾰψῐς (sŭ́năpsĭs, “contact”).
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