(n) a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order, Example:humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)
n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + &unr_; the body. ] (Biol.) One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann. [ 1913 Webster ]