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The tightly wound libraries where your entire blueprint hides in 23 matched volumes.
means Thread-like structures of coiled DNA inside cells that package and carry your genetic instructions.
from From Greek chroma (color) plus soma (body), coined in the 1880s because the structures soaked up lab dyes and showed up vividly under microscopes.
Human countForty-six total, arranged in twenty-three pairs.
Sex decidersX and Y settle the biological coin toss.
Stretched outOne cell's DNA spans about two meters.
Record holderSome ferns carry over a thousand chromosomes.