chromosome
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chromosome/ˈkrəʊməsəʊm/
▶noun Biology a thread-like structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nuclei of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.
– derivatives
chromosomal adjective.
chromosomal adjective.
– origin C19: coined in Ger. from Gk khrōma ‘colour’ + sōma ‘body’.
'chromosome' also found in these Oxford entries:
acentric
- allele
- autosome
- Barr body
- centimorgan
- centromere
- chromatid
- dicentric
- disomy
- fragile X syndrome
- gene
- genome
- insert
- Klinefelter's syndrome
- leptotene
- linkage
- map
- marker
- monosomy
- polytene
- sex chromosome
- -some
- synapsis
- telomere
- trisomy
- trisomy-21
- Turner's syndrome
- univalent
- X chromosome
- YAC
- Y chromosome
