condensed nuclear chromosome

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Namecondensed nuclear chromosome
IDGO_0000794
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Cellular component

Related synonym

meiotic chromosome, nuclear mitotic chromosome

Description

A highly compacted molecule of DNA and associated proteins resulting in a cytologically distinct nuclear chromosome.

Comment

Note that this term and its children can be used to annotate gene products that localize to a mitotic chromosome in an organism that undergoes a 'closed mitosis' in which the nuclear envelope does not break down during mitosis and for gene products that localize to a meiotic chromosome.

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