bivalent

Adj.	1.	bivalent - having a valence of two or having two valences divalent chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
	2.	bivalent - used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis double genetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms multivalent - used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis univalent - used of a chromosome that is not paired or united with its homologous chromosome during synapsis; "a univalent chromosome"

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