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Centromere Moderate

Centromere has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape

"the centromere is difficult to sequence"

2

The central region of a eukaryotic chromosome where the kinetochore is assembled.

See Also
anticentromere subtelocentric paracentromeric telocentric acrocentric pericentromeric monocentric holocentric
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
structure
Rhyming Words
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