z 10 y 4 g 2 o 1 t 1 e 1 n 1 e 1
8 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the second stage of the prophase of meiosis
originFrom French zygotène, corresponding to zygo- (“union, zygosis”, from Ancient Greek ζυγόν (zugón, “junction, yoke”)) + -tene (“filament”, from ταινία (tainía, “band, fillet”)), equivalent to zygote + -tene. Coined by Victor Grégoire in 1907 and in English by Edmund B. Wilson in 1912.
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