Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun somatic_chromosome

1 sense of somatic chromosome

Sense 1
autosome, somatic chromosome -- (any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa)
       => chromosome -- (a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order; "humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes")