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SOMATIC CHROMOSOME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa
Synonyms:
autosome; somatic chromosome
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("somatic chromosome" is a kind of...):
chromosome (a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order)
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