centromere

The resulting identical pairs of chromosomes, the sister chromatids, are held together by a structure called the centromere.

In sequencing each centromere, they learned the duplicated regions vary greatly in size, unexpected because these knobs serve the same purpose in each chromosome.

The centromere region contains thousands of repeated segments of DNA.

To function correctly, yeast chromosomes need protective structures called telomeres at both ends, and only one centromere — a region that ensures the accurate segregation of chromosomes into mother and daughter cells during cell division.

To determine whether the distribution of TE families along Ae. tauschii chromosomes was homogeneous, mean TE distances to the centromere for the 22 most abundant Gypsy and Copia families were computed.