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Definition of "kinetochores" []

  • Plural form of kinetochore. (noun)

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Use "kinetochores" in a sentence
  • "In the absence of the nuclear membrane, the mitotic spindle microtubules are now free to enter the nuclear region, and formation of specialized protein complexes called kinetochores begins on each centromere."
  • "Although meiosis and mitosis share a lot of similarities, numerous differences exist between the spindles in these types of cells and some of these differences have been already identified: (i) centrosomes are present in somatic cells and absent in oocytes; (ii) kinetochores microtubules appear very late in MI"
  • "We deliberately refrained from merging the identified proteins into complexes specific for the kinetochores and the centrosome, since we found in our screen only a limited number of proteins related to these structures."