📚 noun • entry_id 27987
centromere
/ˈsɛntɹə(ʊ)mɪə/
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centrómero
The central region of a eukaryotic chromosome where the kinetochore is assembled.
Every chromosome has a long arm and a short arm separated by a pinch point known as a centromere.
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 t…
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