Dictionary Entry
chromosome
chromosome is a 10-letter English word with 2 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 2 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
- 2noun
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"
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