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