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Home / Doubts and Solutions/CBSE/Class 9/Biology

what are chromosomes?

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Chromsome is a threadlike linear strand of DNA and associated proteins in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells that carries the genes and functions in the transmission of hereditary information.

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