There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
CENTROMERE
centromere, kinetochore
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
centromere (plural centromeres)
(genetics) The central region of a eukaryotic chromosome where the kinetochore is assembled.
Source: Wiktionary
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FELLOW
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
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