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chromatin
noun(chro-ma-tin)
a complex chiefly of DNA and histone in eukaryotic cells that is usually dispersed in the interphase nucleus and condensed into chromosomes in mitosis and meiosis and in which the nucleosome makes up its repeating subunits
chromatin
noun(chro-ma-tin)
barr body
chromatin
noun(chro-ma-tin)
a densely staining inactivated condensed X chromosome that is present in each somatic cell of most female mammals and is used as a test of genetic femaleness (as in a fetus) —called also sex chromatin

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