Chromosomes

• Chr.1
  6 March 2004

  chromosome 1, Ch.1

• Chr.X
  20 November 2003

  X-chromosome, chromosome X, Ch.X, X chomosome

• chromosomes
  16 September 2003

  chromosomes. Waldeyer, 1888. (gk. chroma: colour; soma: body).
  Definition: The self-replicating genetic structures of cells containing the cellular DNA that bears in its nucleotide sequence the linear array of genes. In prokaryotes, chromosomal DNA is circular, and the entire genome is carried on one chromosome. Eukaryotic genomes consist of a number of chromosomes whose DNA is associated with different kinds of proteins.
  During 97% of a cell’s life its DNA is streched out into a thread (...)

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