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chiasma (ki-az´mә) pl. chias´mata Latin word meaning chiasm, or X-shaped crossing. in genetics, a point where pairs of homologous chromatids remain in contact during the first meiotic division, indicating where an exchange of homologous segments has taken place between nonsister chromatids by recombination.
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