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<genetics> The complete set of chromosomes of a cell or organism. Used especially for the display prepared from photographs of mitotic chromosomes arranged in homologous pairs.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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