Associations to the word «Chromosome»

Wiktionary

CHROMOSOME, noun. (biology) (cytology) A structure in the cell nucleus that contains DNA, histone protein, and other structural proteins.

Dictionary definition

CHROMOSOME, 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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope