Associations to the word «Pachytene»

Wiktionary

PACHYTENE, noun. (biology) The third prophase of meiosis, during which the chromosomes shorten and divide into four chromatids

Dictionary definition

PACHYTENE, noun. The third stage of the prophase of meiosis.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin