1. Noun
One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
2. Noun
A structure of nucleic acids and proteins found in the nucleus of cells, containing genetic information
3. 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"
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