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Where is the centromere found in the acrocentric chromosome?


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Centromere:

  1. A centromere is a constricted region of DNA or a structure in a chromosome, which plays an essential role in the segregation of chromosomes during the process of the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells.
  2. There is a centromere near the end of the acrocentric chromosome, forming very long and very short arms.

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