Definitions of autosome
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any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoasynonyms: somatic chromosometype of:chromosomea threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order
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