centromere

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Noun centromere has 1 sense

centromere, kinetochore - 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"
--₁ is a kind of structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
--₁ is a part of chromosome

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