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autochromosome

autochromosome is the alternative form of autosome.

Meaning of autosome

Noun

autosome (plural autosomes)

  1. Any eukaryotic chromosome other than sex chromosomes.
    • Autosoma (or autosome), the usual or non-aberrant chromosomes, called by me previously ordinary chromosomes.1906 January 5, Thos. H. Montgomery, “The terminology of aberrant chromosomes and their behavivor in certain Hemiptera”, in Science, volume 23, number 575, page 36

Forms of autochromosome

pluralautochromosomes

Questions about autochromosome

What is autochromosome the alternative form of?
Autochromosome is the alternative form of autosome.

Words near autochromosome in the dictionary

  1. autochorously
  2. autochory
  3. autochrome
  4. autochromes
  5. autochromic
  6. autochromosome
  7. autochromosomes
  8. autochromy
  9. autochronograph
  10. autochronographs
  11. autochthon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autochromosome (page history and authors); autosome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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