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Chromosome   /krˈoʊməsˌoʊm/  /krˈoʊməzˌoʊm/   Listen
Chromosome

noun
1.
A threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order.



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metacentric chromosome
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"Chromosome" Quotes from Famous Books



... undergo the preparatory processes of maturation. They demonstrate also the apparent chance nature of the phenomena of inheritance. To my mind the most striking and significant result in this field is the demonstration that a particular chromosome or chromatin mass determines a particular character of an adult organism, which is quite a different matter from the reference of all the hereditary characters to the chromatin as a whole. Wilson and others have ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton


Words linked to "Chromosome" :   nucleolus organiser, telomere, body, factor, chromatin, nucleolar organizer, gene, chromosomal, chromatin granule, cell nucleus, cistron, centromere, nucleolar organiser, nucleolus organizer, chromatid, nucleus, kinetochore, autosome, karyon


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