somatic chromosome

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   any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa

   Synonymsautosome

   Broaderchromosome

Questions about somatic chromosome

What does somatic chromosome mean?

somatic chromosome means "any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa".

What is another word for somatic chromosome?

Close synonyms include autosome. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is somatic chromosome a common word?

somatic chromosome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.