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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)

Any chromatin fiber formed in the process of karyokinesis.