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Centromere
//ˈsɛntɹəˌmiɚ// noun
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Noun
- 1 The central region of a eukaryotic chromosome where the kinetochore is assembled.
"The aberrant bivalents with single terminal chiasmata are specially liable to this failure of orientation, presumably because their centromeres lie exceptionally far apart, as is the case in similar circumstances in a Lilium hybrid with reduced chiasma-frequency."
- 2 a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from German Centromer, corresponding to centro- + -mere (from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”)).
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