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  1. In biology, a name given to the pair
  2. of homologous chromosomes during reduction
  3. division (meiosis). In chemistry, the term is
  4. sometimes used to describe an element or
  5. group with a valency of two, although the
  6. term `divalent' is more common.
  7.