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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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Removal of this aberrant chromosome from further calculations makes no change to the inferences drawn.
We have noticed that multiple clones carried an aberrant chromosome III that was indistinguishable by size.
This appears to be consistent with a lower than normal level of recombination in this chromosome.
Bone marrow cells exhibited chromosome aberrations, aneuploidy, and changes in the mitotic index.
They are formed by acentric chromosome fragments or whole chromosomes which are not incorporated into daughter nuclei during cell division.
A dicentric chromosome plus an acentric fragment were scored as one single aberration.

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