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a threadlike body in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order

a threadlike body in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order

In a prokaryotic cell or in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell, a structure consisting of or containing DNA which carries the genetic information essential to the cell. (From Singleton & Sainsbury, Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, 2d ed)

A rod-shaped or thread-like body of chromatin in the cell nucleus, which splits longitudinally as the cell divides, one half going to the nucleus of each of the daughter cells.

Any chromatin fiber formed in the process of karyokinesis.