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Centromere: The cinched "waist" of the chromosome essential for the division and the retention of the chromosome in the cell. The centromere is a uniquely specialized region of the chromosome to which spindle fibers attach during cell division.
The human centromere contains a 3-million-base stretch of DNA embedded in what has been called the centromere and that is all it takes to make a functional centromere. The nature of this core DNA indicates that, rather than being highly conserved, the centromere has changed significantly during primate evolution.
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( sĕn ' trə-mîr ' ) n. The most condensed and constricted region of a chromosome, to which the spindle fiber is ...
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cen·tro·mere (s n tr-mîr) n. The most condensed and constricted region of a chromosome, to which the spindle fiber is attached during mitosis.
Definition of the term centromere. A centromere is a region on a chromosome that joins two sister chromatids.
noun Cell Biology . a specialized structure on the chromosome, appearing during cell division as the constricted central region where the two chromatids are held ...