Acentric a. : Not centered; without a center.

Example:
How does an Acentric and a dicentric chromosomes look like? What are they?

Taxonomy
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Defination from the web:
acentric fragment. ... Acentric fragments are commonly generated by chromosome-breaking events, such as irradiation. ... The acentric fragment will be lost as explained above, and chromosomes with two centromeres will break unevenly ...