dec 31, 1888 - Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried Von Waldeyer-Hartz, coined the term ‘Chromosome’,
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"1888, Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried Von Waldeyer-Hartz, a German scientist coined the term ‘Chromosome’, which is considered as an organized structure of DNA and protein present in cells or a single piece of coiled DNA containing many genes, regulatory elements, and other nucleotide sequences" (from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178936/)
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