WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
A chromosome, [Genetics.]
- Geneticsany chromosome belonging to the normal set characteristic of a given species.
- 1975–80
'A chromosome' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
constriction
- deficiency
- deletion
- duplication
- gene
- locus
- recombinant
- telomere
- translocation
- transposon
- univalent
- acentric
- chromatid
- chromonema
- conjugation
- cross
- dicentric
- dyad
- euchromatin
- genetic map
- heterochromatin
- hexaploid
- hot spot
- hyperploid
- hypoploid
- karyosome
- linkage
- linkage group
- monosome
- mutation
- pentaploid
- polyploid
- tetraploid
- triploid
- sex chromosome
- supergene