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bivalent medical definition

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adjective
  1. Having a valence of 2; divalent.
  2. Consisting of a pair of homologous, synapsed chromosomes, as occurs during meiosis; double.
noun
A pair of homologous, synapsed chromosomes associated together during meiosis.

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