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English to English noun
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a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order |  | Example: humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes
source: wordnet30
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One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann. | | source: webster1913
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