Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chromosome"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chromosome \Chro"mo*some`\, n. [Gr. ? color + ? the body.]
(Biol.)
One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the
nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the {idant}
of Weismann.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
chromosome
n : a threadlike body in the cell nucleus that carries the genes
in a linear order
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