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Three example sentences with centromere, each labelled with its topic.
Stains cling to the pinched waist of the structure, so the centromere shows as a dark band under magnification.
Science
When spindle fibers grab the centromere unevenly, a dividing cell can hand one daughter an extra copy.
Medicine
Sequencing software still stumbles across the centromere, where thousands of near-identical repeats defeat ordinary assembly algorithms.
Technology
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