What Is Meant by Chromomere?

: one of the small bead-shaped and heavily staining masses of coiled chromatin that are linearly arranged along the chromosome.

What is chromomere in biology?

A chromomere, also known as an idiomere, is one of the serially aligned beads or granules of a eukaryotic chromosome, resulting from local coiling of a continuous DNA thread. ... In areas of chromatin with the absence of transcription, condensing of DNA and protein complexes will result in the formation of chromomeres.

What is the difference between chromonema and chromomere?

As nouns the difference between chromomere and chromonema

is that chromomere is (genetics) any of a group of beadlike granules of chromatin that constitutes a chromosome during cell division while chromonema is (genetics) the coiled central filament of a chromatid upon which the chromomeres lie.