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centromere

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centromere

Part of the chromosome where there are no genes. Under the microscope,

it usually appears as a constriction in the strand of the chromosome, and is the point at which the spindle fibres are attached during meiosis and mitosis (cell division).



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Decreased expression of six RNA species was seen at various time points in all cell strains analyzed: plasminogen activator (PLAT), centromere protein F (CPF), replication factor C (RFC3), thymidylate synthetase (TYMS), a putative mitotic checkpoint kinase (BUB1), and a gene of unknown function (GenBank accession no.
``They occasionally talk about cellular structure and when they say centromere, I know what it looks like because I remember seeing them on slides here,'' he said.
Any DNA that doesn't have a centromere, you don't want, even if it came from you," he says.
 
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