When the centromere is situated in the middle of two equal arms of chromosomes, the chromosome is referred as:

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The position of a centromere can be metacentric (centromere at the centre), sub-metacentric (centromere near at the centre), acrocentric (centromere near the end) or telocentric (centromere at the end). The metacentric chromosomes take the " V " shape during cell division.