kinetochore – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Kinetochore
The
kinetochore is a protein structure on
chromatids where the
spindle fibers attach during cell division to pull
sister chromatids apart. There proteins help to hold the sister chromatids together and also play a role in chromosome editing.
kinetochore
Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) centromere
(hypernym) structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
(part-holonym) chromosome
