Definition of chromosome
English to English noun - a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order
Humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes.
source: WordNet 3.0 - One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
source: Webster 1913
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