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- noun Plural form of
chromosome .
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Examples
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To begin with, researchers were shocked to discover how much DNA on our chromosomes is unspoken for -- that is, not arranged into specific gene sites associated with identifiable traits.
Stanton Peele: Human Genome Project: We Discover Much that Genetics Can't Tell Us Stanton Peele 2010
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Or it could be that the author has taken the human genome as a model: Most of the material in our chromosomes is “junk DNA”, serving no purpose but padding.
Britain 2010
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To begin with, researchers were shocked to discover how much DNA on our chromosomes is unspoken for -- that is, not arranged into specific gene sites associated with identifiable traits.
Stanton Peele: Human Genome Project: We Discover Much that Genetics Can't Tell Us Stanton Peele 2010
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To begin with, researchers were shocked to discover how much DNA on our chromosomes is unspoken for -- that is, not arranged into specific gene sites associated with identifiable traits.
Stanton Peele: Human Genome Project: We Discover Much that Genetics Can't Tell Us Stanton Peele 2010
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Biological information in chromosomes changes by various means, usually sexual mixing, occasionally by mutation.
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Obviously, the vole with 64 chromosomes is not appreciably more "complex" than a vole with 17 chromosomes, if the only way you can tell them apart is by counting chromosomes.
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Our DNA is packaged in chromosomes, which occur in pairs – one inherited from the father and one from the mother.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release 2007
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Each of our chromosomes is capped at both ends with protective telomeres which get smaller as we age, which means that clones may begin life with older, shorter telomeres.
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Although the DNA of our chromosomes is famously double-stranded, only one strand of the DNA is typically copied into RNA, so the resulting RNA is normally
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In other words, the so-called "heterochromatin" with which the cytologist deals in studying mitotic chromosomes is a quite different thing from, although in the neighborhood of, the heterochromatin proper having the above described complex of properties.
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