Associations to the word «Leptotene»

Wiktionary

LEPTOTENE, noun. (biology) The first part of the prophase of meiosis, characterized by threadlike chromosomes

Dictionary definition

LEPTOTENE, noun. The first stage of the prophase of meiosis.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope