A small unit or body of basichromatin; a microscopic structure composed of basic dye-staining genetic material.
From 'basichromatic' (staining with basic dyes) + '-iole' (diminutive suffix meaning small). A technical cytological term.
This is the kind of ultra-specific scientific term that exists to let researchers discuss something at exactly the right scale—a 'basichromiole' is like saying 'a tiny clump of tightly-packed genetic material,' but much shorter.
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