Chromosome

['krəʊməsəʊm] or ['kroməsom]

Definition

(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'.

Typed by Amalia--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

Edited by Ahmed