Definitions for chromosome

chromosome chro·mo·some

Spelling: [kroh-muh-sohm]
IPA: /ˈkroʊ məˌsoʊm/

Chromosome is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 294 anagrams from letters in chromosome (cehmmooors).

Definitions for chromosome

noun

  1. any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.

Origin of chromosome

First recorded in 1885-90; chromo- + -some3

Examples for chromosome

We interpret this to mean that sable is far from yellow in the chromosome.

On the morphology of the chromosome group in Brachystola magna.

What does it mean, really, if your 14-week-old fetus has a deletion on chromosome 12?

The locus of miniature at 36.1 is slightly beyond the middle of the chromosome.

Lindstrom of Iowa has led in research on the genetics of tomatoes, chromosome relations and mode of inheritance.

Purple is an eye-color whose gen is in the second chromosome.

It's not delirium tremors and chromosome breakage and only a small number of users would be seriously harmed.

Haploid (n) chromosome numbers were determined from cells in diakinesis, metaphase I, and metaphase II of meiosis.

Diploid (2n) chromosome numbers were determined from cells in late prophase and metaphase of mitosis.

Non-disjunction as proof of the chromosome theory of heredity.

Word Value for chromosome
Scrable

19

Words with friends

21

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