Meaning Of The Word Leptotene

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leptotene in American English
noun: a stage of cell division during the prophase of meiosis, in which the chromosomes are not distinct but appear as a mass of entangled threads

leptotene in British English
noun: the first stage of the prophase of meiosis during which the nuclear material becomes resolved into slender single-stranded chromosomes

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