Synonyms for chromosome
ˈkroʊ məˌsoʊmchro·mo·some

Princeton's WordNet

1. chromosomenoun

   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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1. List of paraphrases for "chromosome":

   chromosomal

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1. Ron Estes:

   Having one more chromosome should never be validation for ending life, and the Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act protects individuals with disabilities, this is common sense legislation that will save precious lives.

2. Sriram Sankararaman:

   You’re going along the genome and there is the X chromosome or there are genes expressed in testes. Basically, these parts of the genome have less Neanderthal or Denisovan.

3. Sarah Palin:

   I don't think because the child has one extra chromosome they should be able to snuff that life out.

4. Jan Dumanski:

   There is a correlation between a common and avoidable risk factor, that is smoking, and the most common human mutation -- loss of the Y chromosome, this ... may in part explain why men in general have a shorter life span than women and why smoking is more dangerous for men.

5. Arthur Georges:

   We used a bacterial artificial chromosome library to generate and verify sex specific sequence and probes that were important to determine the underlying sex of individuals, a BAC library is constructed by cutting up the dragon DNA, the whole genome, and inserting the fragments into bacterial colonies, one fragment per colony, so you can pull particular dragon sequence out at will.