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What is a chromosome?

What is a chromosome? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (cytology) A structure in the cell nucleus that contains DNA, histone protein, and other structural proteins.
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Micronuclei may originate from acentric chromosome fragments or whole chromosomes lagging behind during cell division.
Removal of this aberrant chromosome from further calculations makes no change to the inferences drawn.
A dicentric chromosome plus an acentric fragment were scored as one single aberration.
They are formed by acentric chromosome fragments or whole chromosomes which are not incorporated into daughter nuclei during cell division.
No consistent chromosome aberrations have been identified in basophilic leukemia.
Bone marrow cells exhibited chromosome aberrations, aneuploidy, and changes in the mitotic index.

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