chromosome
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By comparison, the Y chromosome, passed from father to son, was chock-full of Asian DNA that the researchers found was common in modern-day Iran.
From New York Times
Tennis Association for requiring the chromosome test to compete in the women’s category of the U.S.
From New York Times
Digging deeper into the genome of the modified plants, Gao and colleagues showed the editing had accidentally removed not only part of an MLO gene, but also a large stretch of DNA on one chromosome.
From Science Magazine
About 47,000 people in the UK have Down's syndrome, which is caused by an extra chromosome.
From BBC
In all the species, the DNA chain was wound into sausage-shaped structures called chromosomes.
From Scientific American
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