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KINETOCHORE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

the centromere is difficult to sequence

Synonyms:

centromere; kinetochore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("kinetochore" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Holonyms ("kinetochore" is a part of...):

chromosome (a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order)

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