STUDIES OF A TELOCENTRIC CHROMOSOME IN MAIZE WITH REFERENCE TO THE STABILITY OF ITS CENTROMERE

Abstract

"The failure to find a single undoubted case of a telocentric chromosome in the regular complement of any organism suggests that a centromere so placed is either unable to function properly or is unstable (cf. darlington '39). Used a trisomic ch V plant and was a single plant with pheno. btwn trisomic and disomic: had 21 chs and the extra ch was only the short arm of ch V. It had a terminal cen.