English noun: chromosome |
1. | chromosome (body) a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order |
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| Samples | Humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes.
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| Broader (hypernym) | body |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acentric chromosome, acrocentric chromosome, autosome, metacentric chromosome, sex chromosome, somatic chromosome, telocentric chromosome |
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| Part holonym | centromere, chromatid, chromatin, chromatin granule, cistron, factor, gene, kinetochore, nucleolar organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolus organizer, telomere |
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| Part meronym | cell nucleus, karyon, nucleus |
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