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Satellite DNA

Short repetitive DNA sequences that occur mainly at the ends or in the centre of chromosomes and are therefore suspected of serving structural roles; also, polynucleotides that are separable, on the basis of their characteristic density, from the bulk of nuclear DNA, and that have repetitive sequences.

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