Chromatid

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Food Biotechnology

Each of the two daughter strands of a duplicated chromosome joined at the centromere during mitosis and meiosis.

Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn — An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary

Each of the two strands of chromatin comprising a duplicated chromosome. The term is applied only while the two chromatids are joined at the centromere. As soon as the centromere divides, setting the two chromatids adrift (during anaphase of mitosis; and during anaphase II of meiosis), they are called chromosomes.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture