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Cell Cycle and Cell Division — BIOLOGY STD 11 Science — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 ScienceBIOLOGYCell Cycle and Cell Division1 Mark
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Discuss about the synaptonemal complex?
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Answer

It is a protein complex, visible with the electron microscope, that is the physical basis of the pairing of homologous chromosomes (synapsis) during meiosis. It assembled during zygotene as homologous chromosomes pair up, and it is unpaired during diplotene as homologous chromosomes separate.

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