How to Use chromosome in a Sentence

chromosome

noun
  • The team took each chromosome from a mouse and then broke them down.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Each time our cells split, a tiny part of the ends of our chromosomes doesn't make the cut.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Most of the time, plants with extra sets of chromosomes fade away.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 19 May 2026
  • That genes are passed on from parent to child through chromosomes.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Women have two copies of this chromosome — along with two copies of each gene.
    — NBC News, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Around the plant, 9% of their chromosomes could be traced back to shepherds.
    — New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
  • This means humans are diploid, or contain two full sets of chromosomes.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The chromatin further loops and twists, to form our chromosomes.
    — Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Almost no one in France at the time knows how to culture cells to study chromosomes.
    — Lorena Galliot, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Most people have only two copies of each chromosome and so would have only two copies of these genes.
    — Joaquin Espinosa, The Conversation, 5 June 2023
  • It is caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21.
    — John Perrotto, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Only the couture and the chromosomes have changed.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The tests determine if a male Y chromosome is present.
    — Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Telomeres are the protective caps on the ends of cell chromosomes.
    — Mikayla Morell, Health, 2 Apr. 2023
  • It’s even been linked to longer telomeres, protein caps on the end of chromosomes that get shorter with age.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Time, 20 July 2017
  • Telomeres are protective caps on the ends of your chromosomes.
    — Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 28 June 2026
  • Telomeres are protective caps on the ends of your chromosomes.
    — Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Cats possess 38 chromosomes in their genome!
    — PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The genomic structure is the way that genes are arranged on chromosomes in each species.
    — Darren Griffin, Scientific American, 6 June 2018
  • The asymmetrical point creates one long arm and one short arm on the chromosome.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2021
  • The tree is triploid, meaning its cells contain three copies of each chromosome instead of the usual two.
    — Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, like the plastic tips of shoelaces.
    — David A. Brenner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2025
  • This test examines the shape, size, and number of chromosomes in the bone marrow.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 14 July 2025
  • This is because their orange coloration is linked to the X-chromosome.
    — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • Narrowing the stretch of the chromosome down to a single gene took years of detective work.
    — Rachel Fritts, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Telomeres, the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes, shorten with age.
    — Dr. Nimish G. Patel, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The name of the business is a sweet nod to the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Most people have 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46 pairs.
    — Ryan Rossotto, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • These allow a gene to copy itself from one chromosome in a pair to the other so it will be passed on to almost all offspring.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2022
  • These seedlings grew into plants with fruit whose seeds contained double the usual number of chromosomes.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 7 May 2026

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