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- It's not our fault their family had some sort of chromosomal abnormality, and I refuse to feel guilty for wanting—" My grandfather slams his hand on the table and half-stands as he says, "It had nothing to do with chromosomes, Rick!†
p. 92.9 *chromosomal = relating to the threadlike structures in the cell nucleus that carry genes in a linear order
- It's not our fault their family had some sort of chromosomal abnormality, and I refuse to feel guilty for wanting—" My grandfather slams his hand on the table and half-stands as he says, "It had nothing to do with chromosomes, Rick!†
p. 92.9chromosomes = threadlike structures in the cell nucleus that carry genes in a linear order that determine biological traits
Definitions:
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(chromosome) a threadlike structure in the cell nucleus that carries genes in a linear order
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)